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Topic: Clank! Clank! Drove me half nuts! |
Rick Tyson
From:
Ohio
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Posted 6 May 2003 9:18 am |
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Im sure all of us have had our days with problems with our beloved instruments, but yesterday was an all time bonner for me 
I sat down at my beloved Carter ready for some serious practice for a show comming up. After about a minute of playing I herd a soft Clank from the end changer. I put my hand on the changer & engagued the A&B pedals & there it was CLANK! What was it? an old ball from a broken string? a sticking changer? After turning the steel up side down & observing the changer while pushing the pedals down I found nothing binding, no old ball ends, nothing loose on the changer & no CLANK! So it was on with practice. Then the damn CLANK! was back worse than ever when I used any of the pedals. It had to be a pull rod or cross rod binding somewhere so under the steel I went with a flashlight laying on my back & pushing the pedals with my hand. I could feel the clank in the pedals so I checked them out for somthing NOTHING!If I pushed the pedals very slowley there was nothing, but if I pushed them hard I could feel & hear a CLANK! but couldnt see anything wrong with the pull rods or cross shafts. I was now near my breaking point!!! I sat back on my seat and pumped the pedals as fast as I could & hard & there it was CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! What the *^%$# was it!
Finaly I laid my ear on the changer & hit the pedals & there it was comming from the changer, LOUD! & CLEAR! but what?
I got the flashlight & magnifying glass & carefully observed the changer NOTHING!!but that &^%$ CLANK comming from the changer end By now I was really pi$$ed ready to adjust the Carter with a chainsaw!!practice time was all but gone now & then I spoted the problem. How stupid could I have been. It took me 3 seconds to fix the problem.
Im too embarrased to tell ya all what it was.
Can anyone guess? |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 9:25 am
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 9:41 am
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| Wrong string guage on the 10th String?? |
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Billy Easton
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 9:43 am
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You left the tuning wrench on the nylon nut?
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Billy Easton
Casa Grande, AZ
Southwestern Steel Guitar Association
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 6 May 2003 9:47 am
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| A pedal rod was not hooked onto the proper spot on the guitar? |
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Bruce Derr
From:
Lee, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 9:49 am
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Bell crank hooked to a real bell?  |
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Jackie Anderson
From:
Scarborough, ME
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Posted 6 May 2003 9:55 am
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| String broken? |
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Larry Chung
From:
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 10:38 am
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There was a little-tiny elf sitting on the end of one of your return springs with a great big clank-hammer?
I think it's actually "Ring, ring, ring, went the trolley" instead of "clank-clank'?
(:
lc |
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Jan Dunn
From:
Union, NJ USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 10:43 am
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| Pedal board not clamped tight to the legs? An unfastened belt buckle hitting a firearm concealed in your pants? Your earring hitting the aluminum neck? A faulty hearing aid? The ice cream man likes your practicing? |
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RON PRESTON
From:
Dodson, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 10:49 am
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#1 pedal rod in #3 slot, # 3 rod where 2 should be?......Well, come on now..WHAT???
You are Killin' me......  |
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Martin Weenick
From:
Lecanto, FL, USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 11:31 am
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What Billy E. said. Tuning wrench on nylon nut.
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Martin W. Emmons LG III 3/5 Peavy 1000 |
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Rick Tyson
From:
Ohio
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Posted 6 May 2003 11:36 am
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Just a few more replys & Ill tell yall what it was.
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Chas Friedman
From:
Wimberley, Texas, USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 12:00 pm
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Termites in your Pac-a-Seat?
(This is sort of like the "puzzlah" on Car Talk; maybe it should be a regular feature!)
chas |
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Ulf Edlund
From:
Umeå, Sweden
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Posted 6 May 2003 12:38 pm
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It has to be one of theese:
Your mobile phone was too close to your amp when you recieved a message?
Your long lost wrist-watch was stuck between two changer fingers?
A ladybug nesting in the return springs?
Uffe |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 6 May 2003 12:54 pm
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Dropped fingerpick in it while in the case.
Or spare change. |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 6 May 2003 12:55 pm
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| If the noise was "RAP, RAP" rather than "CLANK, CLANK" I would think it was a roll of wRAPPING paper. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 6 May 2003 12:59 pm
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| Ooh, I just love mysteries, don't you? |
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Frank Estes
From:
Huntsville, AL
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Posted 6 May 2003 1:02 pm
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BCT = Body Clank Technology???  |
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 6 May 2003 1:30 pm
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The spare bar in the bar holder,attached to the leg?
Or your pittbull rabbit with the iron neckless tried to make love to your steelguitar?  |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 6 May 2003 3:28 pm
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Frank, that was a classic! (ROTFLMAO)
Now, if Rick was a cowboy, I'd say it was his spurs! (I played a few gigs years ago with boots and spurs.) |
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 6 May 2003 3:36 pm
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Volume Pedal hitting the pedal bar?
JE:-)>
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Emmons D10 8/4 P/P -75'
Fessenden SD-10 3/5
Session 400
Nashville 400
Bandit 112
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Steve Feldman
From:
Central MA USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 3:38 pm
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| Bad U-joint? |
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 4:27 pm
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| Maybe it was your pager vibrating up against your guitar. Stranger things have happened.. |
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Kenny Foy
From:
Lynnville, KY, USA
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Posted 6 May 2003 4:35 pm
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| Wiggling pin out of the wobbling shaft! Clank Clank Clank- We have a winner! |
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