Buzzing pickup springs
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Curly
Moe's Bluesman
Re: Buzzing pickup springs
yeah, Stew Mac sells it
if there's a medical supply place you know of, you could probably get some there too ... you'll want to match the inner diameter of the tubing with the adjusting screws if you do that
sometimes you need to check the length of tubing, so that you can adjust the pickup height correctly - usually they should be about 1/4" -3/8" or so
yeah, Stew Mac sells it
if there's a medical supply place you know of, you could probably get some there too ... you'll want to match the inner diameter of the tubing with the adjusting screws if you do that
sometimes you need to check the length of tubing, so that you can adjust the pickup height correctly - usually they should be about 1/4" -3/8" or so
Re: Buzzing pickup springs
Humbucker or single coil?
If SC, just get the tubing. Stew-Mac has it and it's very cheap for the hassle it will save you, both in not causing noise and they're great when changing pickups.
If Humbucking, the stretching thing should work just fine.
Mark
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Humbucker or single coil?
If SC, just get the tubing. Stew-Mac has it and it's very cheap for the hassle it will save you, both in not causing noise and they're great when changing pickups.
If Humbucking, the stretching thing should work just fine.
Mark
mongrollo
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Re: Buzzing pickup springs
Couldn't it be that they are just too short? May be they aren't tensioned enought and they are free to rattle. Try to put something in the baseplate on the screw hole that elevates the surface were the spring rests. Anything cilindrycal should work since the screw still will have to go throught it.
This is what I did when I found out my sprigns were just too short. I took a 4 conductor computer cable and I removed two pieces of the exterior plastic isolation of 1/8'' lenth. The plastic isolation it is very resistan to compresion to it holds the spring pressure quite well. Then I've put each of the cylinders in the screw hole so the screw could go throught it and the spring had to rest over it.
proxy said:
Couldn't it be that they are just too short? May be they aren't tensioned enought and they are free to rattle. Try to put something in the baseplate on the screw hole that elevates the surface were the spring rests. Anything cilindrycal should work since the screw still will have to go throught it.
This is what I did when I found out my sprigns were just too short. I took a 4 conductor computer cable and I removed two pieces of the exterior plastic isolation of 1/8'' lenth. The plastic isolation it is very resistan to compresion to it holds the spring pressure quite well. Then I've put each of the cylinders in the screw hole so the screw could go throught it and the spring had to rest over it.
