Rubber pads under Goodrich pedal

[Don R Brown]

EDIT: Problem solved. See post of 7-11-24 for my wrap-up of what worked.

What's the best replacement for the rubber pads or washers on the bottom of Goodrich volume pedals? Goodrich shows 4 rubbers and 4 screws for $16. I have 3 pedals and would like to go through all of them and replace all, plus have some spares on hand - so a box of 30 or so would be ideal. I've got to think some supply house sells them in bulk. I've been to HD and looked through their various cabinet and plumbing parts but nothing jumps out at me as just what is needed.

Thanks!

[Jerry Overstreet]

I think these are what they use now. Just have to pick the correct size. Guessing the screw size is #6. click here
Most hardware or big box stores have these in various sizes. Probably can eyeball or match up at the store.

[Don R Brown]

Thanks Jerry - Does the head of the screw compress the black material enough that only soft stuff contacts the floor? We're leaving for the weekend in a bit, Amazon shows it should be here by the time we get back. Thanks, worth looking into for sure.

[Jerry Overstreet]

Yessir, no worries...the washer is concave or convex whichever, and the screw clears the floor. I believe this is the same type of washer Goodrich uses now. I've had them on the last 2 or 3 recent pedals I've owned....of course I defer to the folks there.

As I recall, the Goodrich pedals take a #6 screw on the bottom plate so that or close to that size hole in the washer should work for you.

I imagine you can get them from the Goodrich folks or maybe from Bill Ferguson as well.

[Bobby D. Jones]

Check Ace Hardware, They have a Grey rubber foot with a metal washer, Screw hole, They are 5/8"/15mm in diameter. I have 4 on my home practice volume pedal with bar bracket, They make the pedal very stable.

[Darvin Willhoite]

The sealing washer from a metal building screw works perfectly. It is a metal cupped washer with a rubber ring cemented to it. The head of a #6 flat head screw will squeeze through the hole in the rubber and contact the metal washer, when it's tight, the screw head is lower than the rubber so only the rubber contacts the floor. Home Depot and any other home center should have them. The washers come on the screws, but are easily removed.

While on the subject of volume pedals, I ran across a perfect string to use on a volume pedal. I had to shorten some blinds in my shop a few weeks ago and had to cut the strings that raise and lower the blinds off about 12", the string is braided, it is extremely strong and doesn't stretch. I installed some on one of my pedals today and it works great.

[Don R Brown]

The sealing washer from a metal building screw works perfectly. It is a metal cupped washer with a rubber ring cemented to it. The head of a #6 flat head screw will squeeze through the hole in the rubber and contact the metal washer, when it's tight, the screw head is lower than the rubber so only the rubber contacts the floor. Home Depot and any other home center should have them. The washers come on the screws, but are easily removed.

And so does a box in my garage! Already bought and paid for! Thanks to all who made suggestions, and especially to Darvin.

[Jerry Overstreet]

Great! My bad, not plumbing washers but sealing washers. Wasn't sure what to call them. Now I know thanks to Darvin.

[Steve Hinson]

I get mine at Lowe's...those drawers in"Hardware"where they keep the Cotter pins and stuff...

Lotta misc.stuff for steel guitars and old cars in that part of the store...

SH

[Brian Lee]

Another great source for stuff like this is McMaster Carr. Their website is great- easy to navigate and each item is usually well specified. I buy fasteners and other mechanical bits from them often.
Here's a link to the rubber bumpers they have available: [/url]https://www.mcmaster.com/products/bumpe ... /bumpers~/

[Darvin Willhoite]

McMaster Carr’s shipping rates have gotten outrageous. I don’t buy anything from them that I can get somewhere else. Shipping is often as much as the parts.

[Jerry Overstreet]

What Darvin said. Often shipping is more expensive than the parts ordered. They have good stuff and a great selection but shipping is prohibitive doing business with them.

Much as I don't like doing business with Amazon on some levels, they're still almost always the best bang for the buck with mostly free shipping for the time being.

[Brian Lee]

Yep, shipping costs at McMaster Carr is an issue, especially if only buying a few little bits. I buy a fair amount of fasteners and other raw materials for jeep projects from them, so adding some little steel guitar related stuff to an order of heavy, bulky stuff is essentially incremental free shipping. What I really like about McMaster is that they carry a wide array of hard to find parts, and they usually have detail specs on dimensions and material type so it makes it easy to figure out if the part will meet the need.

[Brooks Montgomery]

Like Bobby Jones said, Ace hardware. I had the same problem and found a replacement that was close enough at Ace. I took my pedal in and the hardware jedi helped me.

[Jon Jaffe]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S2 ... UTF8&psc=1

20 feet for $10. Enough to share with friends.

[Don R Brown]

A belated and hopefully final word on this. I finally got around to filling Jon's prescription in the post above and they are exactly what was needed. (Should I say "just what the doctor ordered!"? )

They arrived in 2 days, inexpensive, fit fine, and I couldn't ask for anything better. I did use just a bit of blue threadlocker on the screws to keep them from loosening up with use.

I highly recommend them for anyone else with this issue.

[Rich Upright]

Home Depot. A LOT less than what you were quoted.

[Don R Brown]

Home Depot. A LOT less than what you were quoted.

I had looked at HD and didn't see them - not saying for sure they didn't have them, but if so they were probably 4 to a pack for 2 or 3 bucks a pack.

I had 3 pedals to do, 4 pads per, so needed 12. The Amazon batch of 20 pads was $10. $2 per pedal, can't get much cheaper than that. (Plus with my luck, I would have bought the wrong size at HD and had to take them back anyway )