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So I’ve decided to undertake my “post-summer gig season cleaning/service” early this year. I’m not too hung-up on appearance but I think it might be time for new strap buttons. They seem to be pretty standard issue, right?
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lowphatbass said:
So I’ve decided to undertake my “post-summer gig season cleaning/service” early this year. I’m not too hung-up on appearance but I think it might be time for new strap buttons. They seem to be pretty standard issue, right?
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I’m guessing if the strap button looks like that there’s a good chance your screw is stripped out the hole a little. You may need to use the toothpick trick to get it to thread tightly.
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A while back here I read you can switch the bridge and middle wires to get the middle pickup alone. I gave it a go and it didn't work. I wonder though - do I need to desolder the red and green middle wires and then solder the green middle to the red bridge before moving positions in the selector? This is a 3x NG3.
 
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Ryno1330 said:
A while back here I read you can switch the bridge and middle wires to get the middle pickup alone. I gave it a go and it didn't work. I wonder though - do I need to desolder the red and green middle wires and then solder the green middle to the red bridge before moving positions in the selector? This is a 3x NG3.
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That doesn't look right. It should be a complete move. There is a Bridge + and a Bridge -, etc.

I know this is 2x, but this should help. Were the shields originally in each - spot on the 3x? (stole this pic off of Talkbass).

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Ryno1330 said:
A while back here I read you can switch the bridge and middle wires to get the middle pickup alone. I gave it a go and it didn't work. I wonder though - do I need to desolder the red and green middle wires and then solder the green middle to the red bridge before moving positions in the selector? This is a 3x NG3.
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Assuming you moved the -ve wires as well, you'll need to swap the 4 positions over?

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If you want the middle solo you probably want it in series so the middle green and middle black wires would be the ones to solder together (then all your pickups will be in series). That's the limit of my wiring knowledge, you may need to do the reverse for the bridge but someone else will chime in with the full procedure.
 
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NaH said:
Oh. So swapping B+ to M+ and B- to M- didn't work? Where is the black wire on B- going?
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No. It was weird. I ended up getting in the 4 postitions (starting with the selector closest to the neck)
1) neck 2) neck 3) middle and bridge (parallel I'm pretty sure based on the tone) 4) I could just barely hear any noise at all and when I tapped the pickups none of them sounded on.
Here's a pic of the black wire going into heat shrink then splitting out into 2 different wires. I can try to follow them out also.
 

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