Could be a little close - depends on how you use it. I wouldn't mess with it if it's working for you though!I can't measure mine, but it looks a tad lower than yours...
I don't know about your model (didn't read the whole thread)
But a loose vintage style screw in bar can be tightened up easily.
Get some of that teflon white plummers tape and wrap it atound the threads of the bar as needed.
It's specifically used in plumbing to seal up threads. Works like a charm.
Could be a little close - depends on how you use it. I wouldn't mess with it if it's working for you though!
There should be a spring but probably 90% (WAG) have lost theirs. (I’d guess a display model without the arm is probably certain to not have it.)...
Isn't there meant to be a spring in there, though, before the trem arm goes in?
Yup, plumbers tape should do the job.
Isn't there meant to be a spring in there, though, before the trem arm goes in?
Yup, plumbers tape should do the job.
Isn't there meant to be a spring in there, though, before the trem arm goes in?
Just checking I didn't make it up!
I think I remember some buyer's guide saying to make sure to ask for the spring because they often come without.
Thats pretty cool...I recall reading why the brand new ones have the sticker over the hole to keep the spring in..but I didnt recall why the spring was there. Interesting tiny detail of the Fender tremlo bar design.
FYI. I sent an email to Fender support about the 50's Classic model and whether it should have had a spring. Here's the [edited] reply.Thats pretty cool...I recall reading why the brand new ones have the sticker over the hole to keep the spring in..but I didnt recall why the spring was there. Interesting tiny detail of the Fender tremlo bar design.
FYI. I sent an email to Fender support about the 50's Classic model and whether it should have had a spring. Here's the [edited] reply.
Jul 6, 08:55 MST
Hi KA,
Yes that guitar should have came with trem arm springs. ...
Well, I was pretty clear in my email [to Fender] that the thread here was about "whether there should be a spring in the tremolo arm's threaded socket" (quote from my email), and so I think their reply was about that. If you get the big springs, try again .Now, the way that response is phrased, I wonder if they're referring to the (long) bridge plate tension springs.. not the (small) tremolo arm tension spring. Just guessing since their word "springs" is plural.
Well, I was pretty clear in my email [to Fender] that the thread here was about "whether there should be a spring in the tremolo arm's threaded socket" (quote from my email), and so I think their reply was about that. If you get the big springs, try again .
Yeah, they'll take it out of the next customer's guitar is the problem.That's good enough for me
If it ever stops raining here I'll take it back to GC and 'splain the situation - they're always cooperative. They'll probably throw in a new Fender Bass combo amp for my troubles..
or well.. maybe just the spring.
Yeah, they'll take it out of the next customer's guitar is the problem.