purchased a few pedals and the covered in cement putty, help

Belanger88 · Post by **Belanger88** » 16 Jul 2016, 04:54

can anyone help me get this concrete putty removed from these circuits they sound like garbage and were actually really pricey not to mention the shitty wiring job he did and also soldered resistors to the footswitch with no heat shrink or anything to make sure it holds up I'm really not impressed with his pedals and I have a feeling he's gone to such lengths because there probably borrowed circuits , either way, i just want to safely remove it and possibly mod the circuit to make it sound half-decent the boost pedal ill just sell as is because its ok I supposed but I couldn't sleep at night selling someone such a hunk of garbage for the price I would have to charge

Belanger88 · Post by **Belanger88** » 16 Jul 2016, 04:57

alexradium · Post by **alexradium** » 16 Jul 2016, 06:36

just looking at those 3.3M resistors on the switch makes me think of total BS,i'd strip the whole board and wires and throw it in the bin,start over with some nice circuit you can find in these pages.
Who's the genius,i'll stay away from this garbage?

deltafred · Post by **deltafred** » 16 Jul 2016, 08:36

alexradium wrote:just looking at those 3.3M resistors on the switch makes me think of total BS,i'd strip the whole board and wires and throw it in the bin,start over with some nice circuit you can find in these pages.
Who's the genius,i'll stay away from this garbage?

Those look like 330k 5% to me, orange, orange, yellow (33 + 4 zeros), gold = 5% tolerance.

+1 on staying away from this builder.

theblackman · Post by **theblackman** » 16 Jul 2016, 09:40

here ya go buddy,

info in this thread

https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=351

Belanger88 · Post by **Belanger88** » 16 Jul 2016, 15:33

Metal Pedals. He actually has Johnny hilands signature od believe it or not. He is blind however so maybe he's just telling them there handwired works of art lol