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SHORT VERSION:
To fix my FD-8 HH pedal, I had to remove the rubber "finger", cover it with Vaseline, put it in a baggy with Canola oil, and let it sit in the Sun for a few hours.
This made it flexible enough to start working again.
LONG VERSION:
My vdrums have sat mostly idle for the past 5 years due to kids. At some point, they used to bounce on the various pedals for fun. When I tried to play again this weekend, I observed that the HH pedal was no longer doing anything, and of course, suspected that my kids had abused it too much....not true!
These two YouTube videos essentially taught me everything I needed to fix this.
The first one was all that was really necessary, but they never explained what we should be expecting of the rubber finger.
In my case, the finger was rigid.
The electronics appeared to be working. Pulling out the cable would cause HH sounds to trigger from the module.
Also, if I tapped on the leads area of the transducer (the resistor pad on the plate), I heard HH sounds trigger,
so this was a good sign.
The key here is that the rubber finger needs to be very flexible. After letting it sit in Vaseline and oil, in the sun for a
couple of hours, the finger was now both flexible and slightly squishy.
To test that this was "squishy enough", I plugged in the FD-8 with all of the housing removed from the floor plate,
held the squishy rubber finger in it's spot, and tested what the module would do when tapping down on the "hammer"
end of the finger. Viola...it started working again! Good as new.
SHORT VERSION:
To fix my FD-8 HH pedal, I had to remove the rubber "finger", cover it with Vaseline, put it in a baggy with Canola oil, and let it sit in the Sun for a few hours.
This made it flexible enough to start working again.
LONG VERSION:
My vdrums have sat mostly idle for the past 5 years due to kids. At some point, they used to bounce on the various pedals for fun. When I tried to play again this weekend, I observed that the HH pedal was no longer doing anything, and of course, suspected that my kids had abused it too much....not true!
These two YouTube videos essentially taught me everything I needed to fix this.
The first one was all that was really necessary, but they never explained what we should be expecting of the rubber finger.
In my case, the finger was rigid.
The electronics appeared to be working. Pulling out the cable would cause HH sounds to trigger from the module.
Also, if I tapped on the leads area of the transducer (the resistor pad on the plate), I heard HH sounds trigger,
so this was a good sign.
The key here is that the rubber finger needs to be very flexible. After letting it sit in Vaseline and oil, in the sun for a
couple of hours, the finger was now both flexible and slightly squishy.
To test that this was "squishy enough", I plugged in the FD-8 with all of the housing removed from the floor plate,
held the squishy rubber finger in it's spot, and tested what the module would do when tapping down on the "hammer"
end of the finger. Viola...it started working again! Good as new.
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