Gareth Magennis wrote:
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Gareth Magennis wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to find a 4 pole changeover footswitch for a Maxon guitar
effrects pedal. Not the kind of thing you see every day.

The original is made by Fujisoku, but they do not appear in their
catalogue. I suspect these are custom made for Maxon.
Just curious, but do you guys who do this sort of work and are sensitive
to value of service time issues ever just disassemble and refurbish
such things as switches? I found it more cost effective to disassemble
and rebuild special, but well constructed, DPDT push button switches
used in a (U.S.) bingo board than to order new ones.

Michael


IMHO this would only be valid with particularly well constructed or
expensive parts. And that doesn't happen much these days.
I believe that for most modern equipment the customer would rather pay for a
new switch rather than pay the same or more to refurbish the old one, which
won't last as long.
I learned a long time ago that I didn't like customers bringing me back
equipment they'd paid me to repair a few months later saying, "that
pot/switch/socket you cleaned for me has got dirty again".

In this case the footswitched is smashed to pieces.

Hi Gareth

Could you perhaps post a photo of the remains of the switch somewhere, I
might have something lurking in the recesses of my workshop which will do.

Ron