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Topic: 1979 Super Pro Broken Part - Help |
Chris Weronski
From:
New York, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2012 9:15 pm |
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| First of all, I'm not sure what the name of the part is, but it is some sort of bracket that the helper spring attaches to. It is not the stationary bracket with 10 holes that screws onto the underside of the guitar, but the movable part that the opposite end of the helper spring hooks on to. On this guitar, it is the second string (D#) on the E9 neck. I'm not sure when it happened, but I noticed the helper spring hanging freely under the guitar, and I saw that the end with the hole broke clean off, so there is nothing for the spring to hook on to. What concerns me is that the string is connected to a knee lever that lowers the D# down to a D and then down to a C#, so there is a lot of movement and pressure there, but there is also a barrel tuner there to help out with the half-stop (correct me if it is not called a half-stop - I'm still new at this). I was wondering how big of a problem this could be and if anybody knows where I may be able to find a replacement if need be. Thanks for any help. |
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Alex Cattaneo
From:
Quebec, Canada
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 20 Dec 2012 2:05 am
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Unless you raise the 2nd and now find the lever action too stiff, I wouldn't worry about it. Helper springs don't play a role in lowering.
You'd need another finger to fix it (I suppose you could drill another hole to mount the spring, but I don't like that idea)
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Lynn Stafford
From:
Ridgefield, WA USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2012 6:25 am Helper Spring
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Chris,
I don't think you need to worry about this. I've seen Sho-Bud guitars that the factory had actually ground off the part of the 2nd string finger, where a raise helper spring would normally hook to. I think they wanted to purposely prevent someone from installing a raise helper spring on that finger, as it could cause the lower not to function properly.
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Chris Weronski
From:
New York, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2012 12:56 pm
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| I've heard of using the RKL to raise the D# to an E. Is that a popular change? I actually found that in a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copedent |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 20 Dec 2012 1:01 pm
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A fairly common change these days is to have the KL that raises the 1st string F# to G# also raise the 2nd string Eb to E. Pretty cool change.
Even better when you have a lever that drops the 6th string a half step...as long as they're on two different legs... |
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