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Topic: Easy steel guitar cross shaft too remove! |
Johnie King
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2022 9:25 am |
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Spring loaded cross shaft on a this 3/8 square aluminum pedal steel cross shaft.
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 21 Jan 2022 4:25 pm
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Nice work! 
(And apparently, you're smarter and more meticulous than some of the more vaunted manufacturers.) |
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Ron Hogan
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Nashville, TN, usa
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Posted 21 Jan 2022 4:41 pm
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| I believe the Carter guitars I have re-rodded have that feature. |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2022 10:10 am
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I used to have a box of those. They were 3/8ths square. Were they MCI parts? I cannot remember.
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Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2022 11:13 am
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| Chris Lucker wrote: |
| I used to have a box of those. They were 3/8ths square. Were they MCI parts? I cannot remember. |
Chris I don't know the origin of these cross shafts they were in a really nice double ten steel guitar body that was given too me here in Nashville.
I have had lots of different brand pedal steels but I've never seen this style cross shaft.
A Nice feature on these is the spring pin is on each end. |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2022 12:05 pm
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I had a box full of them but gave them away because the shafts were 3/8ths square. All my bellcranks for square shafts were 5/16ths and I did not feel like making a bunch of 3/8ths bellcranks.
Because they were hollow, the 3/8ths square shafts needed a clownishly large diameter ring placed somewhere near the center of the double neck shaft's length. This ring would ride against a stop fixed to the cabinet so the shaft would not flex when activated.
The spring loaded dowel pin idea did make it easy and inexpensive to make cross shafts.
Are yours 3/8ths or 5/16ths? Are they hollow tubing or center drilled square stock?
If using center drilled stock I would leave out the spring and just have a set screw to lock the dowel pin at the desired length.
Solid stock would also obviate the need for an added ring in the center to ride against the stiffener stop. You would only need to machine the center of the cross shaft round.
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Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2022 1:42 pm
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| Chris they are solid aluminum, center drilled. |
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J R Rose
From:
Keota, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2022 7:06 pm
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I have seen a few of those on some early day Rains guitar. I have one laying on my shop bench now that came out of a Rains. Plus my Performance guitar has them. In rebuilding it I found that they had a 3/16" round rubber rod in the hole from end to end of cross shaft to put pressure on the pin that you pulled on to slide the pin back. Not good. So I put a round plastic rod in the cross shaft and then put springs in. Worked well. J.R.
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Ron Hogan
From:
Nashville, TN, usa
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2022 8:18 am
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| That's cool Ron thanks. |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2022 8:44 am
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I had them on a steel or two that I have had through here... I recall working with them, LOVED the ease in which they went in and out, it was a very well thought out design, however I can't for the life of me remember which guitar had them.. Carter maybe?.. Fessy?... Don't recall, but I have seen them before and worked on something that had them... bob
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