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i am a few days away from getting an old pedal back from a friend. pedal is a marshall echohead delay i bought when i was 16. it has a broken volume knob which is unfortunately all the way down. if it were all the way up, i would feel no need for repair. now i'm not a chap who is willing to pay another hundred dollars for a new delay, so what are my options to either fix (i.e turn it up) it with no new parts, and how do i know what specific pot i need if i decide to replace it? thanks and sorry for the meandering post.

Probably needs a new pot.

Take it apart and see what value the broken one has written on it. Then go to www.smallbearelec.com to get a replacement. Solder that bad boy in and yr in business. You'll probably need the smallest pot they stock.

is there any way to turn the volume up in the mean time untill i get it settled? thanks for the halp.

you could solder a few wires together to eliminate what the pot is doing, but then again they use pots that have a certain resistance for a good reason. Even if you were to get in there you might as well replace a pot whole you were at it.

Presuming the pot itself still works but the shaft has just broken off, you could always just use a very beefy adhesive resin and create a new shaft.

I did the same with my ancient 8 track; screwing a small, fat screw into the plastic shaft remains with some Araldite to keep it in there.

This post has many sexual overtones.

nah if anything sexual overtones are appreciated, and with all the screwing and sticking together it's come to be expected. in seriousness though you're saying i can drive a small screw in there with some industrial adhesive? i'm assuming i have to be uber careful as not to puncture the pot itself? i'm new at pedal repair but i figure repair is the first step towards building them.