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DIY Pedalboard - 3d printed & Aluminium Extrustions 400mm x 300mm


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It does mount with two bolts through the bottom (note that mine aren't like the ones in the picture, I used the adjustable feet that came with the original board, as I got the power bar separately later, and prefered the other feet.

Can't see what the bolt is offhand, other than it measures 7mm with a caliper across.

 

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5 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

I keep having intrusive thoughts about integrating one of the Harley Benton PowerBars into one of these. I don't need more power on my pedalboard, I don't even need a new booard. But I'm still thinking about it 😅

 

https://www.thomann.co.uk/search_dir.html?smcs=81f6e8_6233&sw=spaceship power bar&sp=bloomreach&category[]=GIEFNT&cme=true&filter=true

They are absolutely brilliant.

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I got a cheap dedicated compressor pedal a few days ago, a Donner Compressor.  Looked cheap and I thought I'll have a look at that and I'll put it on my pedalboard.

 

Well, what a disaster that was. The pedal is very small, I hadn't quite appreciated how small. It's metal and well made BUT it almost falls between the rails on the pedalboard. Thats not the biggest problem though, nothing I have will actually stick to the bottom of the pedal. So none of the Velcro I have stays on. The rubber appears to be some sort of inert rubber that is very non-slip but at least three different velcro tapes just slide off it as if it had some sort of repulsion built into it. NASA needs to know as this could be cheap way to launch rockets.

 

It turns out that its not just me and other people have the same issue. (https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/guitar-amps-gizmos/83801-attaching-mini-pedals-pedalboard-velcro-aint-workin.html)

 

So rather than peeling off the rubber from the bottom of the pedal, I designed printed a new base that simple screws in AND is quite large so it spans the pedal board rails. The old base is in the box, I used the same screws that came with it.

 

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I suspect that all of the Donner mini pedals have this issue, nice pedals but a little tricky to fix with Velcro.

 

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If anybody wants a base let me know and I'll print one out and send it for free. Rather annoying TBH.


Rob

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