# Og smash my transcriber pedal!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-smash-my-transcriber-pedal/425055
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 2, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-smash-my-transcriber-pedal/425055 "2007-11-02T20:23:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-smash-my-transcriber-pedal/425055/1 "2007-11-02T20:23:01Z")
Before I smash my goddamn transcriber pedal (that goes to [this machine](http://www.amazon.com/Sony-M-2000-Microcassette-Transcriber-Recorder/dp/B00006IACF)) please tell me how to get it to work! I inherited this transcriber, and the foot pedal was unpredictable at best. I replaced it, and have had no problems for months, but all of the sudden it’s not working again. I push and push and push and OMIGODIHATETHISTHING!!! If I use the regular play/stop/rew/ff buttons on the machine itself there is no problem.
I don’t want to buy a whole new machine since they’re expensive, I just want the foot pedal to predictably work when I press the pedals. Is that so much to ask???
\*\*featherlouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu \*\* where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu???
I tried to find a users manual on the web, no luck.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-smash-my-transcriber-pedal/425055/2 "2007-11-02T23:07:58Z")
The pedal is probably very simple - just a lever connected to a switch.
Make sure the switch is working, and that the cable isn’t broken internally at either end. A continuity tester and the knowledge to use it would come in handy.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-smash-my-transcriber-pedal/425055/3 "2007-11-03T13:16:10Z")
Making sure the thing isn’t full of cat hair or shoe mud would also help.