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10-28-2010, 10:09 PM
| | I hear a voice at the back of the room... | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Kansas City | | | Help! The nut on my input jack fell off, ***??
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The nut on my Epi Thunderbird just fell off. How much should it cost to fix and/or replace the whole thing?
I have to play live in 2 days.
Just don't want guitar center to rip me off.
Thanks |
10-28-2010, 10:15 PM
|  | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | | Uh?!?
1) Find it
2) Put it back on.
It's not rocket surgery. This is a very basic repair for a guitar owner - well, maybe not a GUITAR owner, but a BASS player should know these things.
It should be in your DNA somewhere. |
10-28-2010, 10:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Washington State | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SurferJoe46  Uh?!?
1) Find it
2) Put it back on.
| Borrow one from another instrument, I bet they're interchangeable. Or close to it. I bet any decent repair shop will give you one, rather than open up the register for a ten cent sale.
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10-28-2010, 10:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | 1. Find missing nut. If this is impossible, skip to Step 2.
2. Go to the hardware store.
3. Spend 25 cents or less on a replacement nut and a buck or two on a tube of Loctite.
4. Place small drop of Loctite on jack threads, then replace jack nut.
5. Rule the world.
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10-28-2010, 10:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Denver, CO | | | +1 to KungFu, if you can't find it, I bet they're like 8 cents at a hardware store.
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10-28-2010, 10:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | 6. ???
7. Profit! |
10-28-2010, 10:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Phoenix / Kansas City | | | Input jacks themselves are like $0.98, worse case scenario drop $3 at GC for one and steal the nut. Then you'll have a spare for when you get shlammered at the show and rip the whole thing out. |
10-28-2010, 10:44 PM
| | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | | #8 - Do not work a gig where the possibility of getting schlammered is even slightly likely. |
10-28-2010, 10:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SurferJoe46 #8 - Do not work a gig where the possibility of getting schlammered is even slightly likely. | I agree. I've never been schlammered, but whatever it is, it sounds most disagreeable!  |
10-28-2010, 10:56 PM
| | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | Quote:
Originally Posted by elgecko I agree. I've never been schlammered, but whatever it is, it sounds most disagreeable! | Yeah = real bad!
I think it also requires that at least ONE person is wearing his beer goggles.
TWO people wearing beer goggles is a Bi-Schlammering |
10-28-2010, 11:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Phoenix / Kansas City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SurferJoe46 Yeah = real bad!
I think it also requires that at least ONE person is wearing his beer goggles.
TWO people wearing beer goggles is a Bi-Schlammering | When you're drunk enough to be both smashed and hammered, you are shlammered. And bad things happen.
I worked the night shift at IHOP for a few years, I saw some things.. |
10-28-2010, 11:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | Oh...then I have been schlammered!  |
10-29-2010, 06:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | It's possible that the hardware store won't have the nut you are looking for.
There are a few sizes of control nuts and I've noticed that my Epiphones take a slightly smaller jack/nut than on my Switchraft jacks. In fact, on my Epis I just replace the jacks with Switchcraft at the first sign of trouble.
Radio Shack sells a bag of assorted control nuts that contains several different sizes, you may find some that fit your jack in there. Link to Assorted Control Nuts at Radio Shack
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10-29-2010, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by knucklehead G ... both smashed and hammered, you are shlammered.... | Where does the "L" come from in "shLammred"?
I'm just sayin..
(Yeay, I'm that guy...sometimes)  Quote:
Originally Posted by OmnitzGarima Borrow one from another instrument, I bet they're interchangeable. Or close to it. | Yeah, but usually the one that you lose is the one size thats different from the rest.
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10-29-2010, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by knucklehead G When you're drunk enough to be both shloshed and hammered, you are shlammered. | fixed
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10-29-2010, 11:06 AM
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I setup & repair guitars & basses | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Kensington, Ca | | Quote:
Originally Posted by uncletupelo The nut on my Epi Thunderbird just fell off. How much should it cost to fix and/or replace the whole thing?
I have to play live in 2 days.
Just don't want guitar center to rip me off.
Thanks | Buy a real Switchcraft jack, and replace it yourself. If you can't do this, however much it costs to have someone else do it, well,that's how much it costs.
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10-29-2010, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by elgecko 6. ???
7. Profit! | LOL. Thanks.
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10-29-2010, 11:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Iowa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by knucklehead G
I worked the night shift at IHOP for a few years, I saw some things..
| Remember, what happens at IHOP, stays at IHOP!!!  |
10-29-2010, 11:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | You are 37 and can't figure out how to screw a nut on??????????????
Turn in your man card!
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10-29-2010, 11:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: CT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hdracer You are 37 and can't figure out how to screw a nut on??????????????
Turn in your man card! | Yeah...at the risk of sounding..well...rude..
Maybe there could be bigger problems than the nut falling off.
(Hey, Im not being mean..I'm being funny. Sometimes the line is just, fine.)
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