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Location: Chestertown, MD | Hi,
I'm trying to change out a pickguard on an '80 Viper.
I've managed to extricate all of the screws, pots, etc. from the old pickguard, but the lower adjustment screw on the bridge pickup seemes to be stripped; it turns, but moves neither up nor down. I would normally try WD40, but it's a metal screw and a plastic pickup cradle.
Anyone have an idea on how to approach this? |
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Location: Chestertown, MD | Anyone, please? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | So the screw is stuck? Or is it just stripped? If it's stuck, try graphite. If it's stripped and you can't lift it, try a magnet. |
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Location: Chestertown, MD | It turns in the cradle hole, but moves neither up nor down.
I've actually cut it to free the spring and rubber bushing, so I now have the lower half of the screw isolated, but I turn and pull w/ needlenose and it just spins.
The problem is that I'd wager the plastic cradle is a part nearly impossible to find, so I have to find a way to get the remains of the screw out somehow. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | 
4-40 blind nuts. Spikes are flatened then nut is epoxied in place. I got these at the local hobby shop. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | I've done the same thing, works a treat.
Model airplane spares
AJ |
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Location: Chestertown, MD | Holy crap, yeah, that's perfect once I get the last bit of screw out.
I've been really worried about destroying the plastic cradle, but until I can remove the piece of screw, I can't do this can I? Do I just chop the old screw seat piece off, or cut around the old bit of screw and use the 4-40 to fill it in and epoxy the whole thing to the bushing?
Apologies if I'm sounding dense. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | The plastic thread is stripped, just grab the end of the cut off screw with pliers, turn it and gently pull at the same time it will wind out.
You will need slightly longer screws if you use the above method.
Shame you had to cut the screw, they are hard to get. Well here at least.
I have been reassembling a Breadwinner PG this afternoon and am short original screws.
The Partridge family had Breadwinners I believe.
AJ |
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Location: Chestertown, MD | Yeah, I've been trying the turn-and-pull method now off and on for a few days, but all I'm doing is pulling bits of the remianing screw off; there's none left to grab, so now I'm trying from the bottom side, and...now I understand why the guitar's pickguard had been repaired w/ a plastic piece that didn't match. |
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