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Stripped Plastic Screw

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 4:12 pm
by Noirie.
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I've got this old Danophobic pedal but that screw is fucked and I can't get the battery out. How do I do this?

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 4:31 pm
by plopswagon
Well you can’t give it an abortion.

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 4:36 pm
by Fakir Mustache
Needle nose pliers or a bigger screwdriver.

Oh yeah, and supposedly coins, but haven't tried it.

Had something similar happen to a Dano pedal, but the head broke off completely. Wound up drilling a small hole in the broken plastic screw body and attaching a metal screw to close the pedal.

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 5:54 pm
by Noirie.
I fucked it up more using a 5p coin. I'll have a butchers for some pliers then.

It's a Pastrami Overdrive. Can't find any information about what it's based on if anyone here knows?

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:00 pm
by BearBoy
I think it’s based on a fundamentalist interpretation of Leviticus.

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:41 pm
by plopswagon
BearBoy wrote:I think it’s based on a fundamentalist interpretation of Leviticus.
“Thou shalt not use a 5p talent�

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:46 pm
by benecol
Maybe if I say in this thread that every time I read its title, I can hear Thom Yorke warbling it to the tune of "Fake Plaaaaastic Trees", it'll stop happening?

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:46 pm
by Noirie.
BearBoy wrote:I think it’s based on a fundamentalist interpretation of Leviticus.
With Red Led clipping.

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 7:12 pm
by sunshiner
Glue something to it using super glue and take it out. You can also rebuild the head afterwards. Take a piece of plastic and grind it on a file making plastic sawdust. Fill the messed up parts with it and add super glue, then add more of the plastic dust too ex�ess. When it dries up shape the head with a file to its original form and cut a notch for a screwdriver using some smallish saw

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 8:39 am
by NickD
benecol wrote:Maybe if I say in this thread that every time I read its title, I can hear Thom Yorke warbling it to the tune of "Fake Plaaaaastic Trees", it'll stop happening?
Came in here to say exactly that. Goddamn it Tim.

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 8:54 am
by Doog
Noirie. wrote:I fucked it up more using a 5p coin.
Break open your piggybank and try a quid

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 9:58 am
by benecol
NickD wrote:
benecol wrote:Maybe if I say in this thread that every time I read its title, I can hear Thom Yorke warbling it to the tune of "Fake Plaaaaastic Trees", it'll stop happening?
Came in here to say exactly that. Goddamn it Tim.
This is like "It Follows".

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:00 pm
by kim
Knife or scissors, cut a deeper slot with it and try to turn it.
A coin doesn't give you that grip or torque on it, something with a handle and sharp edge might.

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:55 pm
by NickD
Pliers will probably fuck it up more. Mole grips would be better, or a big screwdriver, like this

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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:14 pm
by benecol
Wow, you could say that's a HUGE JACKMAN.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:22 pm
by Freddy V-C
Does anyone else have a thing where they can’t help but hear that one line in Fake Plastic Trees as “a fake Chinese Robert Plant�?

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:23 pm
by Doog
:lol:

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 5:30 pm
by Noirie.
http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2012/07/danelectro-pastrami.html

Anyone able to tell from this what it's based on?

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 9:21 pm
by benecol
Freddy V-C wrote:Does anyone else have a thing where they can’t help but hear that one line in Fake Plastic Trees as “a fake Chinese Robert Plant�?
Here 4 u

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 11:05 am
by NickS
Noirie. wrote:http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2012/07/danelectro-pastrami.html

Anyone able to tell from this what it's based on?
Easier to work from a circuit diagram (schematic). Schematic and discussion on Freestompboxes