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Location: Vernon CT | I Need help and advice!!!! I was changing my Battery in my 1778LX and when I put the "unit" back into the guitar it slipped in "crooked" I can not get it out again!!!!! I took the back bowl cover off and tried to "push" and pull while holding the Release button down and nothing!! Please give me some ideas!! :eek: :eek: |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Same thing happened to me. I just forced it out. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by muzza:
Same thing happened to me. I just forced it out. How? By pulling or from the inside pushing? |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I got a flat knife in the gap and levered it. You do know that the preamp sits inside a 'can' don't you? You can't push it out from inside without unscrewing the clamp thingies.
digging it out with a knife was not an overly pleasant experience - I make sure it goes in dead straight nowadays. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Yes, I do know it sits in a "can". Are you saying you can push the Can out ot the preamp?
If the preamp, where/what did you put the "preassure" on? I've spent 1/2 hour trying to get the damn thing out. I feell like any moe force is going to breake the plastic can or worse. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I would take the can out - loosen the two screws that hold it in. Sometimes the can itself is in tight and puts extra pressure on the preamp. As Muzza said, the can is held in by pressure from the two screws/clamps. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Make sure you're trying to pry the preamp, not the can.
I got a thin old fashioned flat bladed butter knife and pried it out in the area I've indicated with the red arrow below. Try to do it while pressing the release button.
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Location: Vernon CT | GOT IT!!!
Muzza, thanks for the Downunder Enginuity!!!
Used the flat knife technique. :D :D
C.L, I was going your suggestion next!
Thanks guys. And yes, I did plug everything back in, tested it with my Amp and it works fine!
Thanks again!!! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | You're welcome. Us Aussies are good with knives...
Originally stated by Crocodile Dundee:
That's not a knife... THIS is a knife! I'll put money on it that you don't fall into THAT trap again, BT.  |
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Location: closely held secret | CL, just how do you get to the screws... if you can't get the preamp out, hmmm? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I did the same thing when those came out. Fortunately it was on a Guitar Center guitar, so I just hung it back up. I was surprised they fixed it when I went back later. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
CL, just how do you get to the screws... if you can't get the preamp out, hmmm? From inside the guitar, not inside the can.
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I did the same thing when those came out. Fortunately it was on a Guitar Center guitar, so I just hung it back up. I was surprised they fixed it when I went back later. They must have a flat knife too. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Wabbit - good question! I was thinking back to when I installed one and for some reason remembered getting to it through the access hatch.
My bad... maybe I should have another cup of coffee :rolleyes: |
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Location: Vernon CT | I'm glad I'm not the only one!!!!! ;) ;) |
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Location: Reno, NV | In my experience, if you overtighten the screws holding the can in the body, you will distort the can and make it tight on the pre-amp, just tighten the screws enough that it holds the can in the body, but not more. |
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