Anyone have gutshots of an Orange Two-Stroke Boost EQ?

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I have not yet unfortunately, my focus has been elsewhere.
 
Did you have any luck fixing your orange Two Stroke? My mate bought one new and tried it for the first time and when engaging it it just cuts all sound. The LED lights but no sound. I opened it up and R37 looks pretty toasty and gets very hot when power is connected and it's engaged.
He is past the point on being able to return it so I'm going to have a go at fixing it for him.
Just wondering if I could get any clues from how you managed to fix yours.

So last night I finally got around to attempting to fix it. I was in a rush and wanted a boost to use for recording some stuff with a friend later in the night. So I quickly removed the burnt R37, cleaned up the area with some isopropyl alcohol, soldered in a new 47 Ω resistor, and crossed my fingers that nothing else was busted. I got lucky it seems, the pedal worked for the recording session and didn't let out any more smoke. I didn't do a full range of tests on it, but so far it seems to be behaving as expected. We just used it as a flat response clean boost into the low sensitivity input of a JCM800 for some grit, and for that it worked great. I'll have to do more tests later, as well as probably more cleanup work on the PCB which currently has a nasty charred spot under the resistor, but so far so good.
 
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