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11-03-2008, 02:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cambridge, Ontario | | | Screwed by Screws
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Good afternoon everyone. As the title states, I am screwed by (pickup) screws.
I have been having trouble with the pickup springs in my Tbird, so I decided to take a look. Well, to my dismay, the heads of all the screws have been sheared, rendering a screwdriver useless. Is there a way to get the screws out without damaging anything? 
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11-03-2008, 02:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | You can get a tool that will remove the screws at a hardware store. Besides that, if there's a way to carve a flat notch in the top of the screw, you might be able to get them out with a flatblade screwdriver, but that may be wishful thinking...
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11-03-2008, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cambridge, Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fretlessman71  You can get a tool that will remove the screws at a hardware store. Besides that, if there's a way to carve a flat notch in the top of the screw, you might be able to get them out with a flatblade screwdriver, but that may be wishful thinking... | Alright, thank you. I'll have to try the notching idea, for I have no money 
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11-03-2008, 02:47 PM
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11-03-2008, 04:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | He just might be able to back a screw out by using a very small sharp bladed screwdriver and pushing against any protrusion left on the shaft of the screw - but that's also a good way to have the blade slip and dig a nasty, expensive groove in the instrument's finish....so maybe that's NOT the thing to do. Not much chance of it working, anyway. I'd sure put a lot of protective tape over the instrument's surface if I had to try that.
I don't recall where pickup screws mount on a T-bird, but if they're not on the visible surface of the bass, or if they're under the pickup trim ring, a cutting wheel in a Dremel tool should cut a screwdriver-usable slot in them with minimal damage to the wood.
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11-04-2008, 08:39 AM
| | Bangin' out the bottom end for 44 years! | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Connecticut | | | This works for me sometimes ... take a drill about the size of the head of the screw, and center it on the screw and carefully drill just until the screw head is gone. What remains is the shaft of the screw, and the pickup should then lift off, leaving the screw in place. There will be enough of the shaft remaining to use needle nose pliers or some other tool to unscrew what's left OR you can cut a notch in the end and remove it with a flat bladed screw driver. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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