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 he 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. posting the pic right after

Ice-9 · Post by **Ice-9** » 16 Jul 2016, 20:49

Just name what the pedals are, simple as that. Without telling what they are it is difficult to help you.

J0K3RX · Post by **J0K3RX** » 17 Jul 2016, 10:14

You can say what it is in this forum

there's no shame in the game over here

Might need a small jackhammer to get all that shit off... And whatever you do, DO NOT take it in your carry on luggage at the airport or you may wake up in a small room in horrible pain, bloody and naked with a rubber surgical glove hangin outa yer ass

deltafred · Post by **deltafred** » 17 Jul 2016, 11:36

Op started 2 threads, builder infor here https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic ... 74#p259676

That shit looks like car body filler (USA - bondo, UK - cataloy).

I don't know what dissolves or softens it as I have only ever used it on car bodies. It is some form of epoxy with added filler material as far as I know.

+1 to not taking pedals on airlines as hand luggage. A guitarist I know tried that and had a lot of explaining to do and considered himself very lucky to not have it confiscated and even luckier to avoided the surgical gloves.

Ice-9 · Post by **Ice-9** » 17 Jul 2016, 19:22

That epoxy stuff looks quite solid, if it really matters that much to find out what you call a rubbish sounding pedal then just chip away at the goop with some side cutters and dress it down with a knife or a dremel until it is all gone.

Belanger88 · Post by **Belanger88** » 18 Jul 2016, 18:11

Ice-9 wrote:That epoxy stuff looks quite solid, if it really matters that much to find out what you call a rubbish sounding pedal then just chip away at the goop with some side cutters and dress it down with a knife or a dremel until it is all gone.

I'm working on that now thanks, I mostly just want to see why he did it if its a borrowed circuit. he's claiming is 110% original circuit and that's why he has to do it to keep people from stealing his circuits its more curiosity at this point then anything

Belanger88 · Post by **Belanger88** » 18 Jul 2016, 18:17

Ice-9 wrote:Just name what the pedals are, simple as that. Without telling what they are it is difficult to help you.

jersey devil od/distortion by metal pedals and the other is there pushover boost. the od is supposed to be a slightly modified version of their "bombshell" pedal

Belanger88 · Post by **Belanger88** » 18 Jul 2016, 18:21

J0K3RX wrote:You can say what it is in this forum there's no shame in the game over here Might need a small jackhammer to get all that shit off... And whatever you do, DO NOT take it in your carry-on luggage at the airport or you may wake up in a small room in horrible pain, bloody and naked with a rubber surgical glove hanging outa yer ass

haha thanks for the advice, ill be sure to avoid taking it on fly dates

. from what I've gathered the majority of the time people go to these lengths its to hide something, not to protect it from being copied. obviously there's exceptions to that as well though