best way to permanently attach pedals

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jake_xms3_punk

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every time i open my pedal board, its a mess! Pedals and wires everywhere! they are supposed to be attached with those velco strips but they are useless, i have a couple of heavy pedals. I'm thinking of making/having made a rock soilid new board/case and want to make sure the pedals are secure! how should i go about this?
 
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A piece of acoustic foam, like Pedaltrain uses, will keep everything in place when the case is closed.
 
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There's a huge difference in the quality of velcro. Are you using something industrial strength?
 
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no im just using the strips that came with it lol the board is just a cheapo stagg so the velcro is probably not the best. great idea with the foam! never thought about that. I have a cry baby which i had to take the rubber feer off and even then, the screws still made a gap big enough for the velcro not to stick. what's the best was to attach a cry baby?
 
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Good quality Velcro always works... Stagg quality velcro will not obviously...
 
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Using higher quality strips of velcro, and wrapping them over parts of the sides of the pedals makes for a better fitting to the board, in my experience. I have never had much success with the velcro that came with anything, even my Pedaltrain board.
 
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Don't stick on the Velcro!!! The sticky stuff just doesn't work.

All you have to do is take and cut four squares of regular Velcro; they can vary from 1/2" to 3/4" to 1" squares depending on how much hold you need or how heavy the pedal is. Remove the screws from the bottom of your pedals. Take a small awl (I used the one on my Swiss Army knife) and punch a small hole in the center of each Velcro patch. Insert the screw into the Velcro (it should be hard to get the screw through the Velcro) and then put the screws back into the pedals. Et voila! If the hole is too large, it might pull through and not hold; if you need to, you can use a small washer to increase the size of the pressure area under the screw.

I use small strips of Velcro to tack down my cables, keeping the routing nice and neat. I have been doing this since about 1980 and I have NEVER had a pedal come off a board, even when I was using just an old piece of 9-ply birch shelving and no case to carry it in. I've upgraded a few years ago to the Furman SPB-8 with the carry bag, and again, no issues at all. And I can get the pedals off the board when I want to, without pulling any muscles--too much Velcro is not necessarily a good thing. LOL!

I know there are lots of other ways to do it, but this system works well for me. Good Luck!

Bill
 
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dip your pedalboard into a vat of epoxy.

disclaimer: dipping your pedalboard into a vat of epoxy is not recommended because it will likely cover everything in epoxy rendering your switches useless, your knobs useless, your LEDs useless, your wah useless, and your pedalboard useless. But them pedals ain't goin nowhere. Also, I cannot be held responsible if a freak accident occurs and the epoxy reacts with the latent charge in the capacitors and creates a horrific fx-pedal monster that can shoot epoxy lasers from its teeth and is able to speak solely in riffs from stairway to heaven and smoke on the water.
 
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Thanks guys! I'll get some decent velcro and use foam to hold them in place. I will try that chain method when my new board is built!
 
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