Tech Tip

Walter Jones · From: Athens, Ohio USA

I just thought I would pass this along, maybe save someone some work. I am working on an old D-8 National and had to remove the tuners to replace the buttons. Some of the screws that hold on the individual tuners twisted off. I took a dremel tool and routed around the screw, then took my soldering iron and heated the screw, then removed them with needle nose pliers. Some I had to get so hot to get them loose that it burned some of the wood and I had to make repairs with dowel pins glued in and then redrill the holes for the screws. It all came out as a good fix but a lot of extra work, wish I had thought of using the iron before I twisted them off. Maybe we could have a catagory titled Tech Tips, but I probably wouldn't have remembered to look there first. Anyway it worked for me, hope it helps someome else.

Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

Good idea. Here's another tip using heat that worked for me. The plastic pick-up liner in one of the pickups on my '52 Fender Custom had deteriorated over the years and was touching the pickup causing a crackling sound through the amp. I heated a butter knife and used it to press the plastic back up into place. It worked like the proverbial charm and I never had the problem again.

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