Acid Fuzz MKII Mini Teardown! See what's inside!

Hello and welcome back to the bench. Today's teardown is a modern clone of the classic Tonebender MkII from Acid Fuzz, with lots of mojo goodies. Enjoy!
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[@clausanders2886]

You can screw in a standoff (threaded male and female) into the newly tapped hole, fix it with lock-tight and your done.(emulates a large screw)

[@matthewf1979]

You have a couple options to repair the enclosure. Some are going to destroy the finish. The best would be to drill the hole, tap it and get a longer screw. If it was a critical part of the pedal, I would TIG weld fill the corner, flatten the fill, drill and tap it. The hammer finish would be roached though. McMaster Carr will definitely have that screw size/pitch in any reasonable length you need.

[@Georg89]

I just wanna say your your knowledge is amazing, I like to watch your videos simply there is so much to learn from. :)

[@hallanvaara6106]

Leave it as it is. It's part of the story of the pedal and it functions just fine as it is. It's not new.

[@albertoberera561]

I know it is a very bad idea but you can glue the head of the screw to the back door, it will be useless but it will look like nothing happened.

[@ScottStieg]

That was my idea too based on the 4 options. That's a hard fix, so 3 screws works fine, but it would bother at me too until it was correct.

[@Poparad]

I would contact Acid Fuzz and see if they could send out a replacement enclosure and possibly use the old backplate.

[@grabslide]

Or long screw

[@Loscha]

Gluing the screw head in was the suggestion I wanted to offer, also.

[@DougMayer]

Leaning hard on do-nothing. Tis but one screw on one pedal, and defects add character :-p

[@zanzabar4ky7]

You could cut a screw really short and put a nut behind it so it looks like it is there, but it is only attached to the back-plate. Depending on how hard that broken screw is you could drill into and tap it if you wanted to spend them time to do that.

[@dvhx]

humbucker screw should be long enough

[@BlugubriousMusic]

How about a long screw that is only treaded at the bottom and re fixing the broken piece... so the broken piece is not bearing any pressure. You could modify a long screw by grinding the threads in the weak session off. Also, if you are willing rehouse, maybe just a screw head cut and hot glued or two-way taped in place in its hole with no shank... looks good only... but still using original enclosure.

[@MC-hx6nk]

Did you Plus Gas (or equivalent) the screw before using the screw extractor? And, I'd ask the manufacturer if they'd supply you a new enclosure front; the serial number is on the backplate, you've given them some excellent publicity and it's not like it would cost them in labour (you obviously being able to perform a pedal re-house yourself).

[@graybenchelec]

Not familiar with Plus Gas, but I dripped some PB blaster in there and let it sit for 30 min before working it.

[@MC-hx6nk]

@@graybenchelec Damn, that is some rotten luck then. I have found the need to re-tap (well, clear) the holes on some paint finishes that have gotten into threads - particularly the sand textures; they are great for pistol drilling as they don't skate at all, but winding the screw in is just a bit gritty for my liking.

[@antipusrises]

If you're leaning toward the rehousing idea, I might suggest going through Tayda. Here are some of the pros for that option. You can measure the hole sizes and locations and then let them drill the enclosure with their computer guided drill press. You can also provide artwork and utilize their UV printing service to approximate the look of the pedal. Here are some of the downsides to this plan. First, their silver hammer tone pedal is way darker than this one, which would probably force you to change the art from black to white for contrast reasons. Second, Tayda stamps their name in all of their enclosures, and so it might give the pedal a "store brand" feel. Third, Tayda doesn't print on the enclosure lids, only the enclosure face, so you won't be able to recreate the graphic from the lid.

[@KRSound]

They started printing and drilling on all sides last month!

[@antipusrises]

@@KRSound OMG, this is huge news! Thanks for the correction. I can't wait to try this out now.

[@jesseyasaitis9036]

Knock off a screw head and rtv it in the hole so it looks like there's a screw there.

[@PacificNatureTV]

fake screw chopped short to make it "look" screwed on. maybe throw a nut on the backside to tighten it on?

[@toach7141]

don't listen to this guy - mojo parts have aged to perfection - especially when you pay hundreds for a pedal - you don't want parts worth a fraction of a penny in your product - it's insulting - the jhs and benson stuff should be sold for 30 bucks on amazon because they are no different than those cheap amazon pedals - you are paying for a jhs logo - that's it

[@carsonyuh]

Is this satire