Really weird. I took my Clyde Deluxe off my pedal board and brought to my buddies house because he's in the studio later this week and wants to use it. So up until then I've never had trouble with it. I get to his place and he plugs it in and starts wah'ing and then all of a sudden the treadle was stuck! It wouldn't go down... only up!?!?!?! So as human nature dictated he stepped on it a little firmer and then it popped back in and was fine.... until... it did it again!
So I gave it a quick look and noticed that the rubber stopper on the heel was missing, which caused the treadle gear to pull away from the pot gear. So sometimes it went back in w/out resistence and other times it got stuck (sometimes halfway down, sometimes 3/4 down)... seems random.
So I took the treadle off to get a better look at the gears to see if there was damage or something stuck and I found nothing! All the teeth on the gears looked perfect!?!? It still had some grease on the gears but may need some more, but I'm skeptical that this is a lube issue?? I found the rubber heel stop so when I get home tonight I'm gonna put that back on and dab some more grease.... if that doesn't work it's going back to Mike Fuller to fix.
Is it possible that I need to re-calibrate where the 2 gears initially meet? Because they were separated I'm wondering if there's a specific tooth in the pot gear that needs to be the starting point?
WTF?
So I gave it a quick look and noticed that the rubber stopper on the heel was missing, which caused the treadle gear to pull away from the pot gear. So sometimes it went back in w/out resistence and other times it got stuck (sometimes halfway down, sometimes 3/4 down)... seems random.
So I took the treadle off to get a better look at the gears to see if there was damage or something stuck and I found nothing! All the teeth on the gears looked perfect!?!? It still had some grease on the gears but may need some more, but I'm skeptical that this is a lube issue?? I found the rubber heel stop so when I get home tonight I'm gonna put that back on and dab some more grease.... if that doesn't work it's going back to Mike Fuller to fix.
Is it possible that I need to re-calibrate where the 2 gears initially meet? Because they were separated I'm wondering if there's a specific tooth in the pot gear that needs to be the starting point?
WTF?
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