Dissembling a P/P Changer
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- Rainer Hackstaette
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Dissembling a P/P Changer
How do I dissemble an Emmons P/P changer? I have taken the changers out of the guitar in one piece and I want to clean the individual fingers. I can't see how the axle is attached to the pillow blocks. I'm a little scared to use brute force to separate the axle from the blocks. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Rainer
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Hello Rainer...
you just hold one of the Pillar Blocks in each hand and twist in oposite directions..
Baz
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you just hold one of the Pillar Blocks in each hand and twist in oposite directions..
Baz
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Rainer.. this is the mechanism out of the guitar...just twist the left and right end blocks in opposite directions
Basil
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Basil
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Basil, I clamped one leg of the pillow blocks in a padded vise, grabbed the other one with a pair of grip pliers and tried to wiggle the axle loose. Nothin' doin'. It couldn't be tighter if it was welded. It's okay, though. I thoroughly de-gummed the changer with lighter luid, wiped all the grime off in the places I could reach and blew it the whole thing out with compressed air. All the fingers move easily and look and feel clean. I also sanded the tops of the fingers with 600 grit wet and polished them on a buffing wheel. I doubt that they were as shiny when they were first installed at the factory.
Thanks for your help!
Rainer
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Thanks for your help!
Rainer
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After soaking for a while in some kind of penetrating agent, the stuff Ray mentioned or Liquid Wrench, etc., you could also try whacking (more like strong tapping, actually) the pillow blocks with a hard plastic mallet to try to loosen the crud that's got the axle frozen in there.
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Thanks, everybody, for your help. I was finally able to remove the axle using a vise and a wrench. Everything is clean now and back together. Now I only have to reassemble the rest of the guitar. A piece of cake after this adventure!
Without the advice from you all and half a dozen emails I wouldn't have tried it.
Thanks again,
Rainer
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Without the advice from you all and half a dozen emails I wouldn't have tried it.
Thanks again,
Rainer
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