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thedarxide
Bronze Member
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 Posted - 01/18/2006 : 13:59:22
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I've just picked up an old NF-1 which has "use a coin" on the base, but the battery knob is a black thumb type. Is the knob potentially not original?
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/18/2006 : 14:49:29
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| It could be genuine. There appears to be a lot of these around so I suspect that Boss still had a few bottom labels left when they started using the black thumb screws. |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
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Posted - 01/19/2006 : 07:44:29
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| My DM-2, among others, says use a coin but it have the plastic screw. |
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Sunburst
Silver Member
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Posted - 01/19/2006 : 07:59:32
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Im also a believer of the theory that Boss had some labels left of the old type, and decided to use those up before printing new ones.
On the other hand, it depends on how old your NF-1 is. If your NF-1 has an inkstamped serial, it would have had a silver screw originally and this would be a replacement screw. |
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thedarxide
Bronze Member
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Posted - 01/19/2006 : 10:28:17
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Originally posted by Sunburst
Im also a believer of the theory that Boss had some labels left of the old type, and decided to use those up before printing new ones.
On the other hand, it depends on how old your NF-1 is. If your NF-1 has an inkstamped serial, it would have had a silver screw originally and this would be a replacement screw.
It doesn't have a serial, just 0100 on the ledge above the internal switch. |
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Sunburst
Silver Member
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Posted - 01/19/2006 : 11:18:56
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| Since your NF-1 have an ink stamped batchnumber instead of a six digit serial number on a sticker which is usually found on pedals with a black screw, this raises an eyebrow. It is possible that the black screw on your NF-1 might be a replacement screw. I have not seen any inkstamped pedals with black screws. |
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thedarxide
Bronze Member
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Posted - 01/19/2006 : 11:22:45
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Originally posted by Sunburst
Since your NF-1 have an ink stamped batchnumber instead of a six digit serial number on a sticker which is usually found on pedals with a black screw, this raises an eyebrow. It is possible that the black screw on your NF-1 might be a replacement screw. I have not seen any inkstamped pedals with black screws.
I'm having problems with it too, I stuck a thread in the Tech forum. I'm not fussed about the screw, I was just curious. |
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visserman
Platinum Member
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Posted - 01/19/2006 : 13:08:33
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| I have a CS-1 which says "use a coin" but the srew is a black one, controls on actual pedal do contain the small screws, so must have been one of the early pedals with a paperstickered serial number in batt. compartment which still had a backplate which mentions the phrase:"Use a coin" |
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thedarxide
Bronze Member
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Posted - 01/19/2006 : 13:16:46
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Originally posted by visserman
I have a CS-1 which says "use a coin" but the srew is a black one, controls on actual pedal do contain the small screws, so must have been one of the early pedals with a paperstickered serial number in batt. compartment which still had a backplate which mentions the phrase:"Use a coin"
The knobs on the NF-1 have got a tiny grub screw. I took one off yesterday to tighten the pot bolt. |
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lightburst
Silver Member
Germany
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Posted - 01/19/2006 : 17:42:52
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I have a CS-1 which says "use a coin" but the srew is a black one, controls on actual pedal do contain the small screws, so must have been one of the early pedals with a paperstickered serial number in batt. compartment which still had a backplate which mentions the phrase:"Use a coin"
So is my OD-1: paper sticker with s/n, black thumb screw and bottom plate says "...use a coin..." It�s made 1980
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visserman
Platinum Member
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Posted - 01/20/2006 : 17:19:40
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| On of my OD-1's does have the backplate which mentions phrase: "Use a coin", but the actual screw is a black one. The serialnumber, however, is a stamped one near the footswitch. |
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thedarxide
Bronze Member
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Posted - 01/20/2006 : 17:25:12
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So in closing, we've proved BOSS have no consistency  |
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visserman
Platinum Member
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Posted - 01/20/2006 : 18:02:26
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No I think there is a consistency, you just need to remember that Boss made [and still does!!]a large number of compact pedals, and it is hard to chase down all the variations of one partcular pedal. Some pedals did change over the years, some did not. Throughout ourdiscussions here we do find out about some of these changes.
Coming back to the OD-1's, lightburst's one is a later version than mine. I have another one and that one has the silver screw, momentory switch and a backplate which mentions "Use a Coin". One could say this is the first version, from there on the changes come in: My other OD-1 does have the two holes in the batt. compartment, and form there we go to the paparstickered labeled pedals.
Overal you can trace these changes in the whole line of tboss pedals. It is also noticeable on the cardboardboxes. But yep, there are differences, and some of them may be a little strange, but so far, most of it seems to be logical, and by being here, and reading some of the posts you will "educate" yourself to watch out for those differences |
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"use a coin" on label but finger screw knob?
