Well done alexanderre, great pictures
My abilities to fix that stompbox would be questionable (I'm much better with things mechanical). Nicely done!
This time around I brought my Telecaster and my new-to-me yet needing quite a few fixes Fender Champ 600 to the western part of Ukraine while it’s kinda hot in Kyiv. I also brought a few stompboxes - one of them is my kinda mojo - EHX Holystain - a Big Muff fuzz + some cool effects. I bought it about 15 years ago and didn’t play much lately - I quit serious music about 5 years ago and didn’t touch it since then. To my surprise it was in a pretty awful shape - noisy pots and switches disrupted the last bits of inspiration I still manage to acquire . So today I finally had time to go get all the necessary stuff and time to disassemble and clean it up. Used Spirit all the way - first the cap lifter to pry away the knobs they were too stiff to be removed with the bare hands- trust me, I really tried (Image removed from quote.)Then I used pliers to remove the top nuts - didn’t cover the plier head with any insulation to avoid scratches since those nuts have washers. (Image removed from quote.)As I approached the foot switches I did cover the pliers with insulating tape and indeed managed to avoid scratches (for the most part ). (Image removed from quote.)And then finally I flipped the case over to unscrew the bottom cover with a phillips screwdriver. (Image removed from quote.)Then it was time to remove the main board - to do so I had to unscrew the input/output jacks with the pliers first. (Image removed from quote.)And there it was - accessible and ready to get its first spa in 15 years (Image removed from quote.)I removed the metal cover of each of the two foot switches with Spirit’s flathead screws and sprayed a WD40 Contact Cleaner inside of it. (Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)Then I did the same cleaning procedure for each of the pots - gosh they were hard to turn at first but gave in a few moments after I sprayed their internals. (Image removed from quote.)As a result I got a perfectly working pedal that sounds awesome and is ready to rock now whenever I am Now I need to get back home where I have a decent Hakko soldering station and replace a malfunctioning volume pot on my Champ 600, but that’s another story .
This is great and reminds me to service my pedals soon…
Cool, yet another guitarist among us here I’m actually thinking of maybe building some pedals myself. The only issue is that I’m a seasoned user and looking for something really unusual and that’s hard to come by in a form of a DIY kit. And a kit is my only option since I’m no professional and would hopefully only manage to successfully assemble a kit
bass is my passion. It’s been several years since I’ve really played, so my pedals have been in storage. Should get them out. I’m happy with boss pedals. Had a DS-1 for almost 20 years now.
Bass is even better - always wanted to get a bass and learn to play it with a bassist's mindset Boss are a gold standard of course 👍 I also don't play more than 20 minutes a month, but back in a day I thought it'd become my occupation 😀
I agree with you guys!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk