Are pedals worth repairing?

[OldGtrGuy]

Nothing valuable or rare, always listed for $200 used. But are they even selling idk? I couldn't get $150 for mine last year.

Lone Wolf Audio Endless Blockade, it is in face the best gate ive used regarding the sustain, transparency and gating but something is wrong with it for sure.

To my untrained eye all of the joints and components look to be in tact.

Symptoms: a while back if turning off and on, sometimes the switch wouldn't work. Fast forward to today and the pedal is cutting in and out (actually thought it was my amp and that is a whole other headache of a story) and also again, sometimes the pedal will be engaged but does nothing at all.

Could be something as simple as the Footswitch or a jack, could be worse.

Is a $150 worth repairing? I have no idea what people are charging for this service plus $30 shipping back and forth.

 

[creep66]

Usually something simple, like u said the jack etc. If you don't know how to trace a circuit take it to a TV repair guy. They can fix it for probably 20 to 40 bucks.

 

[griff10672]

It's most likely the footswitch .... 99% of the time the first thing to go on a pedal .... especially if it's an old school mechanical switch and not a " soft touch " connected to a relay . They take a beating .... and usually the solder joints will start to go first ... causing your symptoms

now fixing it as you mentioned is a balancing act of being worth it ... your spot on that it's going to be 30 bucks straight out of the gate to ship it round trip ... 20 if your not to far from the tech

then you're looking at bench time .... which can be all over the place depending on who you send it too

what I usually do is give a set price to fix it .... even if it takes me three hours .... you have to keep it worth it for the customer

I try to keep the total cost with shipping at half the value of a used version ..... cause once you go past that ... even I would just buy a new " used " one

 

[Jack Luminous]

10 minutes soldering a new 3 bucks 3pdt switch will solve your problem. Definitely worth it ! I love my Endless Blockade, it's a good gate.

 

[Shask]

Yeah, probably just the footswitch going bad. Easy fix.

To test, click it on and off about 100 times in a row. See if it does anything different sometimes. If so, the switch is probably bad.