Broke Tremolo Arm
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mullyman
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I can't see what you're looking at but if you're lucky you can take the block off of the unit and hopefully there is enough of that part sticking out that you can grab it with a pair of vise grips or something similar. Beats having to tap it with a drill bit.
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Depending on how tight it is in the block, you could try the chewy gum trick, if it sticks to whats left of the bar at all.
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Wana's made a guitar said:
Yeah, I was thinking of something sticky too but not sure it would work or not. This is a dilemma. This same thing happened to me once a long time ago but I just took it to the guitar shop and the guy had it out in like 3 minutes.
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Im curious.... What brand of trem was it? how many springs you got on it? what gauge of strings you using? I know this wont help but just wanted to know.
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I dunno....maybe you can put some glooo (metal epoxy?) on...some sort of pokey thingy...stick it in there and glue it to the broken part of the arm, and then screw it out?
maybe a hardware store has really cheap small diameter rod blanks you can use.
:dontknow: That could work...cheap and easy, no damage, and no replacement parts.
BIGG strangs too mang! you play in standard tuning?
maybe a hardware store has really cheap small diameter rod blanks you can use.
:dontknow: That could work...cheap and easy, no damage, and no replacement parts.
BIGG strangs too mang! you play in standard tuning?
that might work. I could try supergluing some metal to it and try unscrewing.
I usually tune standard, but sometimes i tune down a half step depending on who i'm playing with. When I first started playing a few years ago I learned on my dad's guitars all strung 9-46. It seemed like i was breaking strings every couple days so i jumped to 11s. Then experimented with 12s and 13s and eventually settled on 12-52 GHS boomers.
I usually tune standard, but sometimes i tune down a half step depending on who i'm playing with. When I first started playing a few years ago I learned on my dad's guitars all strung 9-46. It seemed like i was breaking strings every couple days so i jumped to 11s. Then experimented with 12s and 13s and eventually settled on 12-52 GHS boomers.
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if it was my guitar I wouldnt want to mess around with the super glue idea.
http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/gbridge_tremblocks.htm $40 gets you a new trem block. not sure how much the arms cost.
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http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/gbridge_tremblocks.htm $40 gets you a new trem block. not sure how much the arms cost.
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Don't think of it as a broken trem arm. Think of it as an opportunity to upgrade.
http://www.callahamguitars.com/partsstr.htm
http://www.callahamguitars.com/partsstr.htm
ccasion14:try a pencil eraser first,
remove the block if you need to drill anything, e-z out extractor are great but trem arms are reasonably hard and trem block are soft unless its steal of some kind, if you stray from center it is easy to hit the soft metal of the block then the drill finds its own way to where it is soft. if you wind up with a thin wall or break through the ezout will stretch the stud and bind it up in the hole. so be CAREFUL!!!
remove the block if you need to drill anything, e-z out extractor are great but trem arms are reasonably hard and trem block are soft unless its steal of some kind, if you stray from center it is easy to hit the soft metal of the block then the drill finds its own way to where it is soft. if you wind up with a thin wall or break through the ezout will stretch the stud and bind it up in the hole. so be CAREFUL!!!
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