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Paul Corusoe
Bronze Member

55 Posts

Posted - 09/06/2006 : 18:12:45

I have recently purchased an OD-1 b, The area of the pedal that the rubber guide ring fits in has worn totally through. This is from the screw for battery access rubbing for a LONG time without a rubber guide ring. Or some one left the screw all the way in and stomped the crud out of it until it said uncle. Any way my questions for the forum are: Has any one repaired these with success? If so how'd you do it? I was thinking of flowing some brass into the area and then file it into shape. What is the case made of? Does any one know it's melting point? Thanks, It has KILLER TONE by the way, holds on to the bass nicely.
P.S. I know I have wtb in the buy/sell area. Just trying to get one with no issues.

stahlhart
Platinum Member

1318 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2006 : 01:48:15

The extent of my metalworking experience is mainly with soldering (though I dabbled with casting, machining and welding in college).

This is actually a tough call -- I'm not precisely sure what the Boss cases are made out of... I'm going to guess die-cast zinc. Solder probably isn't going to hold to it well, but since brass is a zinc-copper alloy, it seems like it should work.

But how you're going to get the area hot enough to do the work without visibly damaging the paint beyond where the rubber grommet and the footpedal will cover seems to be a challenge. And it's unfortunate, because this is an older discontinued pedal, so getting a replacement case is not going to be all that cheap, unless you get lucky and find a not-physically-broken one.

You know what I just thought of? JB Weld:

http://jbweld.net/products/jbweld.php

Edited by - stahlhart on 09/07/2006 05:23:17

Paul Corusoe
Bronze Member

55 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2006 : 03:07:29

Thank you!!

starr36
Platinum Member

Canada
1172 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2006 : 03:42:49

If you have a friend who works at a specialty machine shop, he'll know exactly what to do.

I had a stripped tremolo on my stratocaster and brought the string block and my whammy arm to him, and he filled and tapped new theads and it was perfect when he fixed it.

In the case of your pedal (nopunplease), they can quickly figure how to fix it.

The good thing is that the area affected is hidden by the pedal switch plate itself, so the only time you'd see the repair is if you used/changed batteries.

Can you post a a Pic of this, NEVER heard of someone beating on a pedal that bad!

midibuddy
Silver Member

Ecuador
285 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2006 : 17:23:45

Do you think some epoxy would work?

diggum12
Silver Member

USA
282 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2006 : 18:23:18

I'm w/ Stahlhart. JBWeld would probably work great. You may have to sand just a little of it for it to stick, but that stuff dries rock hard and can be sanded easily.

I once had a balance fall off my driveshaft on my Jeep. I experimented a little bit w/ a quarter and some electrical tape. Once I found the "sweet spot" I JBWelded it to the drive shaft. Voila! Awesome stuff.

Paul Corusoe
Bronze Member

55 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2006 : 18:54:44

Thanks yall, I purchased this on ebay recently. The gentleman told me it had been painted over by some kid that used to own it to cover all the dings. He told me nothing of the broken case. BUT I plugged her in and loved the tone so much that I decided to roll it around in me fingers for a few days. I have cleaned off 99% of the paint and the patina is back and I think beautiful. I have applied the JB weld and am waiting for it to harden. If you want to see this pedal do a completed listing search on ebay. I'm the nut that paid $261 for a beat to hell OD-1b. But hey man It's what I like doing. I'll keep it and care for it and when I'm dead my kids will be like what the hell was dad doing with this old crap. When I'm done I'll post a pic. I cleaned out the 1/4 inch connectors with a q tip and some head cleaner and I think the gunk could be carbon dated to the stone age. Thanks for helping!!

Edited by - Paul Corusoe on 09/07/2006 18:59:38

Big Boss Man
Gold Member

USA
564 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2006 : 20:08:28

I have an OD-1 with this same exact problem! It was that way when I got it. Mine is a more recent MIT version so it is not really worth fixing. Let me know if you come up with any simple soldering fixes I could do myself.

Paul Corusoe
Bronze Member

55 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2006 : 01:51:29

The jb weld has worked great. Thanks stahlhart! Big boss man I put a piece of masking tape on the inner part of the battery compartment so that it would serve as a form for one side of the goop(first time to use goop in a sentence).Then I rolled some tape sticky side out into 3/4 of a pencil sized tube. I fitted it into the top of the screw guide for yet more goop control. Then I went to town with said goop. Let dry file a bit and shazam!