Help with control plate holes

There are mini and standard sized pots. You have standard pots and a plate for mini pots. You can round out the holes in the plate by taking a drill bit or bore and opening them up. If yo use a drill bit, go slow.

All the best,

Bob

 

Before you go modifying that part just make sure that it will cover the control cavity completely. There have been some reports that the Allparts cover is only 32mm wide and insufficient for complete cavity coverage. The original is 34mm wide. This may've been rectified with the more recent parts.

 

Small Dremel I got standard pots and they didn't fit either. I had my friend do it for me.

 

I'd drop the pots into the cavity and place the plate over them to be sure it will all fit.
That body sure would look good w/ maple board and no pickguard hiding the grain...

 

Metric plate vs. 1/4" American standard pot shafts. Every person that has put CTS pots in a Squier jazz or P has had to drill them out. So, drill them out. That should go without saying.

Little known fact in America apparently: outside of America, the entire rest of the developed world is metric and makes only metric stuff.

 

I'd suggest reaming out the holes by hand with a tapered reamer. If you drill, do it by small steps, and preferably on a drill press against a fence.

 

I guess they didn't rectify the width discrepancy after all.

Glad you didn't ream the holes before test fitting. Now you can send the plate back unmodded...if it's worth the postage.

 

Drill it out. I had to install CTS pots into my jazz bass and 3 hole needed little enlargement. Two different drill bit to step up and done. Control plate brass I think so I turned the chuck by hand.

 

But but but...It's just another thing that makes America EXCEPTIONAL!! The rest of the world needs to conform...oh wait, that only applied in the years immediately following WWII, after that all our exceptionalism has done for us is further isolate us from the global business community.

But we apparently like it that way. Some of us do at least.

Back in the 70's, I think it was under Carter, there was an announcement that America was conducting a study to determine if it was (finally) time for us to join the metric revolution. Mechanics bellyached, but only because they would need to buy a bunch of extra tools, which they wound up buying anyway BTW, but people who had no skin in the game whatever acted like the world was coming to an end and the sky was surely going to fall if we "capitulated" and went metric. The way some pundits reacted, you'd think we were being asked to change our official language.

 

No harm in trimming it. It's better to have it in there than not. Not a complete RF shield but better than nothing.

The ground from the pickup is merely to connect the shield to ground at the pot. If you want to dump it, snipping the ground and taping it is all you need to do.

My preference would be to unsolder it for trimming and go to it with some snips until it fits nicely and then resolder it.