Cheap Ae*ed "pedal" construction

normula1

Having followed the recent Cornish buffer thread, I remembered I'd PedalParts Klon buffer kit that I'd never got round to boxing up. Then I remembered I'd not got a box to put it in. Then I spied an old travel sweet tin on the shelf



A couple of big washers under the sockets to give a bit of rigidity, a bit of bubblewrap around the battery and a couple of self tapping screws to hold it all together.

Philtre

Excellent!

Bridgehouse

Sweet!

Ravenous

Cheap arsed?

(Reaches for empty tin of haemorrhoid cream...)

Guitar_Slinger

I had an AB pedal from @Sporky that worked intermittetently because the battery hung down fom the lid. I fixed it with a mini Chupa Chup. IIRC, there's photo evidence on one of my old phones.

Sporky

That's when I started using battery clips, IIRC...

Guitar_Slinger

@Sporky I dug my ABominiser out last night.

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1040132/#Comment_1040132

The battery clip has partly come away.  Will it be safe to use Loctite to glue it back?  And should I first remove whatever it was you used to stick the clip to the roof of the box?

Edit: probably trivial, but mine is both battery and AC power. Fancy that,  I powered it with a battery when it was used with daisy chanied Boss pedals!  Mustn't have been using a small chain.

Sporky

Loctite should be OK, or pop it back and I'll bung in a new clip. 

Guitar_Slinger

Really -  how?

I don't work in London anymore, although I'll be in town on Tue 11 and Fri 20.

Sporky

Well if you don't mind posting it to me I'll post it back once done 

Let me know if that's OK and I'll pm my address. 

Guitar_Slinger

Great, I can do that.

Edit: @Sporky pm your address please, I've got an envelope ready.

Guitar_Slinger

Update: a couple of posts up, I asked if it was safe to use Loctite to glue a clip back in place. Sporky asked for the pedal back, glued the clip back in place and returned it - thanks. It's "only" an AB pedal, but I used it for hours at a time in rehearsals and gigs. A good and well used bit if kit.

Sporky

Is a brand new clip in there now.  

Guitar_Slinger

Yes. I was more preoccupied by the weighty thunk it now makes, following the addition of a wooden block under the clip. Probably a CITES-based rouse, to stop me selling it abroad.