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03-28-2010, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | | soo I almost threw my bass through the window.
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I just got my bass back from the shop about a week or 2 ago. It had a busted tune key and the neck was badly bowed. A few minutes ago I was replacing the strings and went to put on the E string when the ****ing tune key broke in half. Not stripped out but flat out broke in half. I swear grover tune machines are the worst pieces of feacle matter that they could ever put on a bass. My bass is fairly new (less then 5 months old) it shouldn't have these kind of issues. I swear if I hadn't spent 300 on it (which by all means a lot of money when you're broke) I would have ended up tossing it through the window.
It was so hard to write this without cursing.
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03-28-2010, 09:40 PM
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03-28-2010, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by snyderz  Feacle? | fancy word for crap, although I'm pretty sure I spelled it wrong.
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03-28-2010, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by xxfaux_punkxx fancy word for crap | fecal. |
03-28-2010, 09:46 PM
| | | That sucks.
That being said, in over 30 years of playing, I've never broken a single tuning key - including times where the bass was tossed across stage, dropped on the concrete, slid into my amp, lit on fire, nearly crushed by an airline, and even stood on. Yes, some of my basses have had hard lives, but I've never broken a tuning key. 
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03-28-2010, 09:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | | I guess that's just the luck of the draw dark horse.
I read litterally thousands of reviews on my bass before I bought it. Nothing came up about the tune machines. A couple about the electronics but never the tune machines. I'm pretty sure I got a factory fubar. Either way it's quite frustrating, because now I can't play until I get it fixed.
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03-29-2010, 12:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Metro Detroit | | It has nothing to do with the quality of the gears. It's the extremely high air pressure in Noblesville, Indiana (a geographic anomaly). This puts a tremendous strain on steel molecules. You'll notice cars rust faster in your town than in other towns around you. Those poor little molecules just can't take it anymore and they give up! 
Sorry for your bad luck, man. Where did the tuners break?? Are you sure they're Grovers and not some Chinese look alike gears? |
03-29-2010, 03:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: St. Louis | | | Buy some replacements from Stew-Mac. No reason to put it in the shop.
There may be something in the air in Noblesville. I made the trek out there last year to see AIC at the X-Fest and we left thinking it must have been something in the corn. I mean right in the middle of a giant corn field there's a huge amphitheater filled with tattooed, pierced kids. Mayhem in St.Louis seemed tame by comparison.
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03-29-2010, 08:40 PM
| | | | these are the little enclosed keys like you'd find on an ibanez or something?
they will indeed break, but replacements are only like $14.
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03-30-2010, 10:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Craig_S It has nothing to do with the quality of the gears. It's the extremely high air pressure in Noblesville, Indiana (a geographic anomaly). This puts a tremendous strain on steel molecules. You'll notice cars rust faster in your town than in other towns around you. Those poor little molecules just can't take it anymore and they give up!
Sorry for your bad luck, man. Where did the tuners break?? Are you sure they're Grovers and not some Chinese look alike gears? | That would explain why my G-string keeps snapping. (put a brand new one on and tried to tune it the SNAP! so I used my back up and again SNAP!)
First it stripped out (had to tighten my strings with a flat head then once it would catch it tuned up regularrly) then the string slot broke off.
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03-30-2010, 10:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | | Anywho I got it the rouge key replaced so I'm good to go. Had to put on a backwards key though because I didn't feel like spending the 53 dollars for the store to order a full set.
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03-30-2010, 10:36 AM
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Might this have something to do with it? 
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03-30-2010, 10:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | | lmao shackled. We all know sid was the greatest bass player to grace us with his presence and that the sex pistols kicked off glen because they knew how much better a bassist sid was in comparison.
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03-30-2010, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by shackled I play bass like Sid.
Might this have something to do with it? | LOL! +1
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04-01-2010, 12:48 AM
| | | | I'd say less then one in a million have ever had a grover tuning key break on them. I'd also think itd be a good idea to contact grover and see if its under mfg warranty. Since youve had them less then a year I cant imagine them not being covered by mfg warranty. I'd also geauss that grover will replace the defective tuner for you. Unless of course you do the bang bass headstock tuners onto the floor thing, and such as that for sound or theatric effects while playing. Even so, grover might still replace the tuner for you.
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