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Samson007
Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 1709 Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:22 am Post subject: Broken Whammy Bars |
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Ok, im sure there are or were topics on this before, but I have looked and cant find them.
Both of my whammy bars now lie totally lifeless against the guitar. No spring at all, isnt there something I can do with a rubber band to fix this? If someone could explain that process to me it would be greatly appreciated. _________________
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Riz
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 2011
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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The general gist of the solution is to get a fairly heavy duty rubber band, or two. Drape them over your whammy bar. Now pull them towards the cord end of the SG, which will pull the whammy bar up in the process. Grab the plug from the cord, and pull it, and the trailing cord, through the rubber bands... once it's all the way pulled through, stretch the rubber bands out and hook them over the strain relief for the cord at the body of the SG. If your rubber bands are too long for this configuration to apply tension to the whammy bar, loop them in half first. Experiment to get a configuration you like, tension wise (number of bands/loops).
There's pics of this around here somewhere, but darned if I can find them at the moment.
Riz. _________________
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Shin
Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 204 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:52 am Post subject: |
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I believe I read somewhere it's best to remove the spring too.
I removed it, and it works great with just the rubber bands. |
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katamakel
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:48 am Post subject: |
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I posted a picture of my rubber-band fix for it here. _________________
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Riz
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 2011
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: |
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Not quite the same fix, but thanks for that anyway. I was sure there was also a pic of the external rubber band fix, but I still can't find it...
Riz. _________________
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Crazed
Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 248 Location: NY
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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BadgerBomber
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 1125 Location: Barnstaple, England
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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Yay!!!
Finally a way to fix my guitar!
Thanx for posting some of those answers Crazed, Katamakel and Riz.
Otherwise i was going to make a post about this anyway.
Thats just made my day! _________________
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SFunk
Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 39
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:13 am Post subject: |
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ugh...just earlier today, I glued those "pressing dogs" back on and just put it back together...guess next time they break I know what to do |
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vct
Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 87
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: |
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A picture of the "external whammy bar fix" can be found here:
http://scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5093
I tried both methods with my GH1 controller - the internal fix obviously looks better, but the external one seems to apply more "power" to the bar, which feels more like it originally was. I guess you could correct that with stronger rubber bands though. |
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wupun
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 806
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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I've tried the external fix but it doesn't even whammy at all.
What's gone wrong?
Edit: Doesn't matter, i fixed it now. |
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