Need good translation/help with Hiraken's website for wah mod instructions

[schnorkl]

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Hi

Hiraken's website translates badly from Japanese to English:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient-
menuext&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww9%2Eplala%2Eor%2Ejp%2Fhiraken01%
2Fmod%2Fcrybaby%5Fmod2%2Fjensuper%2Fjen%5Fsuper%5Fmod%2Ehtml

But if you copy and paste below web address into Google search
field, you'll see what I mean.

Is there anyone who knows what this is all about as I have a
mister crybaby wah pedal which hums when pedal is in up position so badly
that it completely drowns out my guitar signal?

Thank you,

Rick

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Does the hum cut in very suddenly right at the end?
Because, it might be that the pot wiper is falling out of contact at the end.
I can't see why else this would happen, unless there happens for some reason to be a lot of hum getting into the system from earth loops or a badly filtered wall wart.

[schnorkl]

Paul,
Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. My signal doesn't completely cut out with wah in up position but about 80% of my signal cuts out with the noise(hum) starting pretty suddenly just after first starting to move a little up from full down position. IOW, only full treble (down) position gives me full signal and a normal amount of noise (hum). Someone on the yahoo newsgroup guitarsampseffects suggested replacing all the caps. Now, this pedal came to me poorly packaged, wrapped only in newspaper in a box almost the same size as the pedal. I thought it could have been damaged. I emailed the seller and he said the pedal only gave off some noise (hum) but not that much and that he used the pedal with a strat straight in to a Fender deluxe reverb or '59 tweed Pro and got some of the regular hum & hiss, but nothing that was too bothersome to me, because he's used to using vintage gear and also the single coils from the strat always have that 60 cycle hum. I'm thinking that after paying over $200 for this thing, that it is not worth fixing, and that I should try to get insurance from shipping damage, but there's no phyical sign of shipping damage. Only that flat backing of the red fasel inductor is a little loose.
Rick
Rick

[schnorkl]

Paul,
An afterthought: It is a hiss I hear, not really only hum, a shhhhhh sound.
Also, it this a normal behavior for a vintage pedal of this kind that one buys off of ebay, say a vox made in Italy?
Thanks,
Rick