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Topic: Emmons D10 LL3 rebuild HELP |
Alan Cook
From:
Kent,England
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Posted 2 Aug 2011 9:42 am |
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I have a 2004 ish LL3 that has had the C6th parts stripped out and the E9th neck has been messed about with. I have all the original parts and I have started to rebuild the guitar.
I have all the pedals and cross rods in but there is a strange fixed shaft! and a double swivel shaft that looks like its for a gear down arrangement!
The guitar has a compensator on each neck that also is not connected under the guitar?
It is a 8 pedal and 5 knee lever set up. Any help or pics if you have a similar set up would be great. I'll post some pics later to show where I am up to.
Cheers Alan |
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Alan Cook
From:
Kent,England
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Posted 2 Aug 2011 1:30 pm Update
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I have fitted all the pull rods but there are 9 rods left that are the correct length for connecting to the fixed cross rod I mentioned in the last post, these also have black plastic ends not white ones!
There are also 4 bell-cranks with adjustable connectors I am assuming that all this stuff is to do with the double counter force mechanics!! but don't know how to fit it together.
Alan |
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Paddy Long
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 2 Aug 2011 8:02 pm
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Alan the fixed length rods with black nylon tuners could be body mount compensators ?? that is they are all attached to a fixed point somewhere, whether that be a crossrod or something similar! Maybe ?? I don't own an Emmons so I am just guessing what they might be for ! My Zums have them attached to a flat bar which is fixed across the bottom of the guitar body.
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2011 8:59 pm
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| The fixed rods are hysteresis (a phenomenon in pedal steels whereby a lowered string returns slightly sharp) compensators and all should have a small rubber 0 ring placed on the rod after it goes thru the lowering finger of the changer before the tuning nut on all lowered strings. They are adjusted by tuning the string open, then tuning the raise, then tuning the lower, then lower the string and observe that it comes back sharp. When it does, adjust the compensator on the string in question ever so slightly so that when lowered the string comes back in tune. It basically acts as a "bump" to the lowered return finger just enough to get it to return to pitch properly. |
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Alan Cook
From:
Kent,England
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Posted 3 Aug 2011 1:11 am
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Thanks Paddy and Jim Fitted them and they work. Just need to fit the double counter-force mechanics now. but the guitar is working and sounding great.
Thanks again
Alan |
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