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09-10-2007, 04:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Seattle, Wa | | | Imput hole keeps coming loose...
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is there anyway to keep my imput (where chord goes into guitar) tight? i tighten it and its fine for a few days and then comes loose again. anything i can do to stop this problem?? thanks |
09-10-2007, 04:46 PM
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Builder and Owner: DJ Ash Guitars | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Dallas, north Texas | | | Loctite blue. You can get it at a hardware store or home center. Most competing thread locks use the same color system. It's a liquid that you apply to the threads before you run the nut down that holds it in place. |
09-10-2007, 04:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | thats what she said. |
09-10-2007, 05:54 PM
|  | I can only dance to the music in my head | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Birmingham, UK | | | There should be a second nut at the back of the jack, inside the bass.. Open the instrument up and tighten the two together using a pair of spanners. This gets it nice and tight and it shouldn't come undone again. It's not as reliable as scott's method, but I'm slightly scared of messing about with glues around the jack.
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09-10-2007, 06:38 PM
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Builder and Owner: DJ Ash Guitars | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Dallas, north Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbob Jones There should be a second nut at the back of the jack, inside the bass.. Open the instrument up and tighten the two together using a pair of spanners. This gets it nice and tight and it shouldn't come undone again. It's not as reliable as scott's method, but I'm slightly scared of messing about with glues around the jack. | That makes sense. By contrast, I'm a little reluctant to have to apply too much force to my components. In my experience, jacks that work their way loose will do it pretty much no matter how hard you tighten them.
Loctite blue isn't permanent, but it keeps your threads, and only your threads, just tight enough not to work loose. It cures when the threads are tightened down and air can't reach it. Otherwise it stays wet long enough to wipe off and clean up. I haven't ever let it dry to see if it actually "bonds" to anything simply because it takes so long, but I'd imagine that it just gets crusty and brushes away. YMMV. |
09-10-2007, 09:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | What I've done in the past with success is to use a properly-sized rubber o-ring between the nut and the flat washer (in lieu of of a star-lok)...it's more gentle than a star-lok and holds tight
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09-10-2007, 11:04 PM
|  | ACME, Line 6, SWR, QSC, Greco user/BOSE PAS abuser | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: South Texas | | | I use a toothpick to put a very SMALL dot of clear silicone seal on the threads before screwing the nut down. It won't come off until you want it to.
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09-11-2007, 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Johnny Crab I use a toothpick to put a very SMALL dot of clear silicone seal on the threads before screwing the nut down. It won't come off until you want it to. | that's a great idea...sort of like a DIY nylon lock nut
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09-11-2007, 07:50 AM
| | Pat's the best! | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Northern Virginia, USA | | | that's what she said. huh huh huh.... funkalicious ha ha ha.
seriously... As already suggested, loctite blue probably would do the trick. |
09-12-2007, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by sublimestylee is there anyway to keep my imput (where chord goes into guitar) tight? i tighten it and its fine for a few days and then comes loose again. anything i can do to stop this problem?? thanks | Yeah - get her to an Ob-Gyn as soon as possible! 
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