How to get smoke smell out of a pedal?

Return it and get a different copy?

 

I appreciate that... you could try buying a couple of boxes of baking soda, then immerse the pedal in a bath of baking soda for a week, then buy a can of air and air spray the baking soda off and out of the pedal. I make no promises if the pedal will actually work after that, but I bet it won’t smell as much after that.

 

Stick it in a ziplock bag with plain unscented clay kitty litter for a day or two. You can put the litter in panty hose if you're worried about the dust entering the pedal.

 

One of those ozone generator gizmos will run u about $100 but it'll neutralize that stank.

 

Look it’s metal. Take the knobs off, clean it with isopropyl alcohol and it should be fine

 

Seriously, try the kitty litter. I opened my PA rack for a gig in a posh hotel non-smoking ballroom and it stunk to high heaven from the previous gigs in smoky bars. As a smoker, i'd never noticed. Anyway, I got home that night and made a "litter sachet pouch" out of of my wife's knee-highs and tossed it in the rack. The next week, everyone asked "Where's the smell?" From then on, I've kept one of those pouches in my racks and cases. I would think they also help absorb ambient moisture too.

 

If it still stinks after using a good cleaner, stick it in a sealed container with some coffee beans for a few days.


*Edit- Throw away the coffee beans when you’re done

 

All good suggestions!

Except maybe mine...

 

I bought a cheap bass from a guy one time that had a funk about it. Took me three cleanings. One with naptha, one with rubbing alcohol and the third with Murphy's Oil Soap. I ended up taking all the hardware off and soaking it on the Murphy's.
Eventually the funk left it.
Of course I changed out some of the sorry parts also. That helped also.

 

Set it in a bag with charcoal (plain BBQ charcoal will do) for a few days. Open any battery compartments. That usually takes the smell out.

 

Open the pedal, Choose a low humidity day, allow it to sit in the sun for roughly 12 hours outdoors where the sunlight is unadulterated. (I say open the pedal cause its most often the internals that stink, not the casing). Then I would put some dryer sheets in and around it in some sort of sealed container and let it sit until theres no stink.

The UV of the sun will take out cigarette smoke smell, I used it to get the smell out of a jacket I got and in about 12 hours it was hardly smelling at all.

 

Boil it in Pine-Sol.

 

Odoban is eucalyptus oil mixture. Something like that you could put on a q tip. It pretty much kills any odor.
I would be careful around the pots and circuits.
I ruined a pedal with wd40 trying to free up a sticky pot. My bad.

 

Lysol wipes and lysol spray then let it sit for a week.