What are the common causes of (cheap) pedals dying?

steamabacus

ICBM said:

darthed1981 said:

I assume some lump of an over-enthusiastic guitarist has put their foot right through a Behringer pedal before.  Apart from that they all seem pretty tough.

I’ve never seen it, although I have with a couple of older plastic-cased ones. The Behringers are tough - it’s only the jacks that let them down really. The pots aren’t great but they’re fairly well protected by the casing design.

I have actually got a Boss DF-2 with a broken casing - its owner jumped in the air punk-style and landed on it… he was quite a big lad. Both the switch rocker and the panel around the knobs are cracked.

I've seen a mate's Korg Pitchblack tuner fail when the casing around the switch has shattered and the whole switch has been pushed down into the body of the pedal. Metal casing too. I don't think he did it himself, probably a random someone stepping (or falling?) on it on a crowded stage - they were a ska band with keys, horn section, multiple singers.