Bad Fasel?

[rousejeremy]

I have an older Crybaby Super Wah acting like a volume pedal. I replaced the caps to no avail so decided to remove the white Fasel inductor to test it. It's reading somewhere in the area of 9M ohm. That can't be right, right?

[Rob Strand]

I have an older Crybaby Super Wah acting like a volume pedal. I replaced the caps to no avail so decided to remove the white Fasel inductor to test it. It's reading somewhere in the area of 9M ohm. That can't be right, right?

You can check for a bad solder joint but it's highly likely the problem is inside the inductor plastic cover.  Either a broken wire or a corroded solder joint from the winding wire to the external terminals.

With great care you can open it up and check out what is going on.

[rousejeremy]

I have an older Crybaby Super Wah acting like a volume pedal. I replaced the caps to no avail so decided to remove the white Fasel inductor to test it. It's reading somewhere in the area of 9M ohm. That can't be right, right?

You can check for a bad solder joint but it's highly likely the problem is inside the inductor plastic cover.  Either a broken wire or a corroded solder joint from the winding wire to the external terminals.

With great care you can open it up and check out what is going on.

There's evidence that someone applied a lot of heat to one of the inductor terminals, it's melted right through the plastic and moved a bit. Opening this thing might be byond my pay grade.

[Rob Strand]

There's evidence that someone applied a lot of heat to one of the inductor terminals, it's melted right through the plastic and moved a bit. Opening this thing might be byond my pay grade

It is possible to heat the terminals.   Some units you can see the point where the winding wires are soldered to the terminals and just heat those.   Whatever you do, don't push down on the winding wires when soldering as they can snap with very little tension.

The way I look at it, is if the broken you have nothing to loose by opening it up. *BUT* there a few different constructions of fasels so you would need to have a plan.  On some fasels the glue holding the cap spills over onto the windings.  As a result the winding gets be glued to the cap and prying open the cap could pull on the winding.  Trying to hold down the winding is risky.  You really need to melt the glue with heat or a solvent.  It going to be a delicate operation.