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I've got this old Danophobic pedal but that screw is fucked and I can't get the battery out. How do I do this?
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Well you can’t give it an abortion.
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Needle nose pliers or a bigger screwdriver.

Oh yeah, and supposedly coins, but haven't tried it.

Had something similar happen to a Dano pedal, but the head broke off completely. Wound up drilling a small hole in the broken plastic screw body and attaching a metal screw to close the pedal.
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I fucked it up more using a 5p coin. I'll have a butchers for some pliers then.

It's a Pastrami Overdrive. Can't find any information about what it's based on if anyone here knows?
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I think it’s based on a fundamentalist interpretation of Leviticus.
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BearBoy wrote:I think it’s based on a fundamentalist interpretation of Leviticus.
“Thou shalt not use a 5p talent�
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Maybe if I say in this thread that every time I read its title, I can hear Thom Yorke warbling it to the tune of "Fake Plaaaaastic Trees", it'll stop happening?
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BearBoy wrote:I think it’s based on a fundamentalist interpretation of Leviticus.
With Red Led clipping.
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Glue something to it using super glue and take it out. You can also rebuild the head afterwards. Take a piece of plastic and grind it on a file making plastic sawdust. Fill the messed up parts with it and add super glue, then add more of the plastic dust too ex�ess. When it dries up shape the head with a file to its original form and cut a notch for a screwdriver using some smallish saw
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benecol wrote:Maybe if I say in this thread that every time I read its title, I can hear Thom Yorke warbling it to the tune of "Fake Plaaaaastic Trees", it'll stop happening?
Came in here to say exactly that. Goddamn it Tim.
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Noirie. wrote:I fucked it up more using a 5p coin.
Break open your piggybank and try a quid
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NickD wrote:
benecol wrote:Maybe if I say in this thread that every time I read its title, I can hear Thom Yorke warbling it to the tune of "Fake Plaaaaastic Trees", it'll stop happening?
Came in here to say exactly that. Goddamn it Tim.
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Knife or scissors, cut a deeper slot with it and try to turn it.
A coin doesn't give you that grip or torque on it, something with a handle and sharp edge might.
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Pliers will probably fuck it up more. Mole grips would be better, or a big screwdriver, like this

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Wow, you could say that's a HUGE JACKMAN.
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Does anyone else have a thing where they can’t help but hear that one line in Fake Plastic Trees as “a fake Chinese Robert Plant�?
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:lol:
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http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2012/07/danelectro-pastrami.html

Anyone able to tell from this what it's based on?
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Freddy V-C wrote:Does anyone else have a thing where they can’t help but hear that one line in Fake Plastic Trees as “a fake Chinese Robert Plant�?
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Noirie. wrote:http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2012/07/danelectro-pastrami.html

Anyone able to tell from this what it's based on?
Easier to work from a circuit diagram (schematic). Schematic and discussion on Freestompboxes