TC Electronic pedal repair

[Yazoo]

I just bought a TC Electronic Choka Tremolo pedal off fleabay as not working. It arrived today and I took it to pieces - very impressed by the build quality and solid metal enclosure at a price of around £30 new in the UK.

It turns out the only problem was the footswitch. It's a big switch which is meant to press down on a momentary switch on the pcb. There is a rubber spacer pad which is supposed to fit into the metal footswitch base but it was only held in place with a sticky pad and this had moved. I just glued this in place with epoxy. I am guessing this will also be the case with the other TC Electronic pedals.

[Mark Hammer]

Some years back, I was sent a box of Line 6 Tonecore pedals.  Many of them use a 2-tier switching system.  One micro-switch is situated juuuuuust a little taller than the other one, so that light presses can be used for tap tempo or mode change.  A second switch is situated under a concave disc of spring steel that "clicks" when you press down harder in the process of actuating the lower switch for bypass.  In one of the pedals, I could not get it to go from bypass to effect.  I took it apart and discovered that, during manufacture of the spring-steel disc, a bit of oil had resulted in two of the discs adhering to each other, and their combination made them quite "unspring-like".  I pried one of them off and the pedal has behaved itself ever since.

Some repairs are just silly, aren't they?