dissonance
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I took out my bridge but my 30 watt soldering iron barely even melts the solder that's attaching the cover. How are people taking covers off their Gibson pickups? I'm starting to think it'd be easier to just buy a new cover.
Unsoldering a Gibson pickup cover
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STRATDELUXER97
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I always use a dremel tool with a small metal cutting wheel on it and cut right through the solder...It's the safest and fastest way I've found to do this...Click on the link and look through my tutorial and you'll see how I do it...
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/barmagswap.htm
John
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/barmagswap.htm
John
STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Robert S. said:
They don't.The Duncans have a closer towards center spacing on both "E" poles..Been there,done that...
A Dimarzio Nickel cover will fit over the Duncan though if you can't get a Duncan cover...www.gtrheaven.com sells Duncan covers...
John
STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Fusion1 said:
I've never seen a cover on any F spaced or tremspaced humbuckers...
John
Tony_H
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STRATDELUXER97 said:
I haven't either, and I think they wouldn't fit each other. I think while the polepiece spread on F-Spaced and Trembucker may be the same (MAY BE - I never compared it myself), SD pups definitely have larger bobbins because the amount of plastic in the rounded bobbin ends is the same as on the bobbin edges in the straight section, while F-spaced DiMarzios have the same size of bobbin for both neck and bridge positions, which means that the rounded edge of the bobbin is narrower than elsewhere on the bobbin. (Geez that's complicated ... but I think I'm right on this ...
Tony_H
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Re: Unsoldering a Gibson pickup cover
It's not easy but I can do it. I always heat the solder joint while prying the cover off the pup baseplate with a screwdriver. But this is not the safest way, and you have to be very careful or once the solder blob gets loose and the pup cover gives way, the screwdriver may suddenly run inside the pickup and break the windings and destroy the pup and what not. I am very careful and have never harmed any part of the pup though.
dissonance said:
It's not easy but I can do it. I always heat the solder joint while prying the cover off the pup baseplate with a screwdriver. But this is not the safest way, and you have to be very careful or once the solder blob gets loose and the pup cover gives way, the screwdriver may suddenly run inside the pickup and break the windings and destroy the pup and what not. I am very careful and have never harmed any part of the pup though.
psychodave
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This is how I do it. I dont actually melt all of the solder. The pressure from the screwdriver "pops" the solder joint apart.
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Tony_H said:
This is how I do it. I dont actually melt all of the solder. The pressure from the screwdriver "pops" the solder joint apart.
STRATDELUXER97
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I don't like doing it with a soldering iron though because it melts the wax up....The dremel tool is quick and easy,but either way works..
John
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psychodave said:
I don't like doing it with a soldering iron though because it melts the wax up....The dremel tool is quick and easy,but either way works..
John
psychodave
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The dremel works the best...but my dremel broke and I am too cheap to get a new one
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STRATDELUXER97 said:I don't like doing it with a soldering iron though because it melts the wax up....The dremel tool is quick and easy,but either way works..
John
The dremel works the best...but my dremel broke and I am too cheap to get a new one
STRATDELUXER97
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Come on over and borrow mine,ya cheapskate!
John
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psychodave said:The dremel works the best...but my dremel broke and I am too cheap to get a new one
Come on over and borrow mine,ya cheapskate! John
Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
I need a dremel tool. I use a small piece of a metal saw blade.
and saw it away from the pickup. The advantage of sawing the solder with a blade or dremel blade, is that you can easily reassemble the pickup by re-melting the existing solder points.
and saw it away from the pickup. The advantage of sawing the solder with a blade or dremel blade, is that you can easily reassemble the pickup by re-melting the existing solder points.
STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Gearjoneser said:
True....I just use some new solder,but the old solder just sitting there always works fine also..While soldering,I always tip the side I'm soldering so I can get the solder to flow towards the edges of the cover and into the crevice and onto the plate..I Let gravity help do it's thing...
John
