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Ok, I know a lot of you guys/gals are awesome guitarists...so I figured you could easily answer a guitar hardware question for noobie me....
The nut on my Fender Stratocaster amp plug-in hardware keeps coming loose (I know...it sounds like a personal problem, right?) and I'm wondering if there is an easy fix to keeping it tight?
Seems like they would have designed this nut as a lock-nut of some kind.
Here's what/where I'm talking about - any ideas?
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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I've got a mexican strat and it does the exact same thing. I've kinda just learned to live with it. If you can tighten it down real tight usually it will stay for a good amount of time, but it always loosens eventually. I wouldn't put any type of adhesive in there because you'll never get it out again. Just think of the little problems like that as "character". I used to have a guitar that I kept a bubble gum wrapper under the strings at the end of the neck to keep them off of the fretboard. Looked pretty silly, but didn't really make the guitar sound bad.
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Replace it with a locking nut. I'd take that plate off and see if there is a backing nut on it that could be adjusted to get more threads to poke out of the hole. Might make it easier to get a nylon locking nut on it. Right now it looks like the only choice you will have is a locking nut with a serrated flange on it. Find a hardware store with a good selection of various nuts. Lowe's and Home Depot are OK but a well stocked old time hardware store is even better.
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That is a very common problem. I wouldn't think a small amount of Loc-Tite would hurt anything. Either that or constantly tighten it by hand like the rest of us.
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Teflon tape ( like plumbers use ). Couple times around the threads, put your nut back on, and trim any excess with an exacto. Got one that's been no trouble for 5 years now with this method.
Werks fer me. YMMV
-------------------- David Cooper, The Sign Shack Enid, OK. Posts: 658 | From: Enid,Oklahoma, USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Try not and use anything that wont allow you to reverse it later. That could make it hard to do any work on the strat. Ive used the teflon tape and it works good. Had that same problem for a year or so until I did that.
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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A drop of clear fingernail polish on the threads before tightnig.
NO wait! I mean ...er...What a PIECE!!! Box that poor excuse for an instrument up and ship it to me for immediate disposal!!
-------------------- John Byrd Ball Ground, Georgia 770-735-6874 http://johnbyrddesign.com so happy I gotta sit on both my hands to keep from wavin' at everybody! Posts: 741 | From: Ball Ground, Georgia, USA | Registered: May 1999
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Okay...you can all go green now....I have a 1960 and never had this problem. Am tempted to open it up just to see why, but will have to resist. I haven't actually played it in 20 some years....thats a shame and hated admitting it.
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