beansell
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This is the third Beetronics pedal I've repaired in the last 12 months. Their PCB design is incredibly unique and beautiful, but golly gosh they gotta stop putting set screw knobs on knurled shafts. Those poor things just crumble like a fine powder. Case in point, this Royal Jelly.
Lucky for me, it was covered in layers of crud. Cleaning that shit is always my favourite part of repairs. Nylon brush, anti-bac wipes, and a little kiss of isopropyl on cotton tips for the extra crusty bits.
I got the go ahead from the customer to replace all 7 pots with 1/4" smooth shaft long leg PCB pots - what these knobs were designed for. Smallbear (Synthcube) sent them at the start of June, and they showed up at my door in Australia a cheeky 9 weeks later. I knew USPS was slowly turning to a farce since the orange gremlin took office, but I underestimated how it'd affect me on the other side of the world.
Out of all pots in the middle row, only one of the original knobs fit. Frustrating to hit that roadblock right at the end of the repair. I had exactly 2 black Davies/Klon style knobs on hand, which were luckily a perfect fit.
Have any of you had similar encounters with Beetronics pedals? It gives off "built like a tank" until I pull it apart, then it's a precariously designed work of art that sounds really good.
Lucky for me, it was covered in layers of crud. Cleaning that shit is always my favourite part of repairs. Nylon brush, anti-bac wipes, and a little kiss of isopropyl on cotton tips for the extra crusty bits.
I got the go ahead from the customer to replace all 7 pots with 1/4" smooth shaft long leg PCB pots - what these knobs were designed for. Smallbear (Synthcube) sent them at the start of June, and they showed up at my door in Australia a cheeky 9 weeks later. I knew USPS was slowly turning to a farce since the orange gremlin took office, but I underestimated how it'd affect me on the other side of the world.
Out of all pots in the middle row, only one of the original knobs fit. Frustrating to hit that roadblock right at the end of the repair. I had exactly 2 black Davies/Klon style knobs on hand, which were luckily a perfect fit.
Have any of you had similar encounters with Beetronics pedals? It gives off "built like a tank" until I pull it apart, then it's a precariously designed work of art that sounds really good.
