Boss Slow Gear problem

Max Roberts · #1 12-22-2008, 08:51 AM

I have a Boss Slow Gear and it's acting pretty strange.

When it's just sat on the floor it can be pretty hard to engage. I really have to stamp on it. The output is also really noisy when I move the cable around, it pops and bangs quite a lot.

So, I put it on my pedaltrain and these problems just disappeared. It just takes a tap to engage it and the output acts perfectly.

Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? It sounds like a mechanical issue in the case of the output but I have no idea what's causing the switch to act differently.

Bassenstien · #2 12-22-2008, 09:05 AM

I used a boss FZ-3 Fuzz for a while and it got real hard to stomp on and off. Turns out that that bushing in the front that the thumb screw goes in had torn and bent down under the screw. It was a real easy fix.

Jimbob Jones · #3 12-22-2008, 09:47 AM

Yeah, check "under the hood"; the switch on my old BF-2 felt really dodgy, and sometimes it wouldn't engage, so I opened it, moved the battery connection wire out of the way and bent the spring back to being straight, and it's worked great ever since!

Mudfuzz · #4 12-22-2008, 10:02 AM

Yeah try remove the rubber ring around the thumbscrew, and also check the power jack, these get lost too and sometimes need to be replaced do to that they are plastic and cheap.

Max Roberts · #5 12-22-2008, 10:23 AM

Well I've just had another look at it and it seems the nut on the output jack is a bit loose which is probably what's causing that problem. Even when I tighten it, it seems to become loose after a while, I'll have a go at tightening it with a wrench or something and see if that does the trick. This is one of the boss pedals that had a metal/silver screw instead of the current black plastic ones, and there's no black rubber in it.

I've checked everything under the hood and it seems fine. The 'check' led comes on everytime (it wasn't a status LED back then). But sometimes the effects just doesn't come on, I'm hoping it's not something to do with the switch itself because it's one of the clear ones that seem more sought after than the black

(must be some ebay boss fad).