Need Help Repairing Steel
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Need Help Repairing Steel
I've got a Carter D-10. I was playing a gig over the weekend when I heard a snap, and my knee lever to raise E to F stopped working. I looked underneath and saw that the metal rod that connected the knee lever to the bell crank(?) had snapped at the connection to the knee lever. The part is relatively simple, just a bent metal rod that was cut to the required length. No threads or anything, but the bent end tapers to a point where it sticks into the knee lever.
I need help finding the part, as I don't know what anything underneath there is really called, or the best place to buy them. I live in RI so there aren't any steel guitar shops I know of, and even finding other pedal steel players isn't easy.
Thanks for the help.
I need help finding the part, as I don't know what anything underneath there is really called, or the best place to buy them. I live in RI so there aren't any steel guitar shops I know of, and even finding other pedal steel players isn't easy.
Thanks for the help.
- Charlie Hansen
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Try Al Briscoe at http://www.steelguitarscanada.com/.
He has all the Carter parts. It just looks like something that you could get at the local hardware store and make it to suit.
He has all the Carter parts. It just looks like something that you could get at the local hardware store and make it to suit.
I don't know much but what I know I know very well.
Carter S-10 3X5, Peavey Nashville 112, plus Regal dobro and too many other instruments to mention.
Bluegrass Island CFCY FM 95.1 Charlottetown, PE, Canada, on the web at cfcy.fm.
A Touch Of Texas CIOE FM 97.5 Sackville, NS, Canada,
on the web at cioe975.ca.
Carter S-10 3X5, Peavey Nashville 112, plus Regal dobro and too many other instruments to mention.
Bluegrass Island CFCY FM 95.1 Charlottetown, PE, Canada, on the web at cfcy.fm.
A Touch Of Texas CIOE FM 97.5 Sackville, NS, Canada,
on the web at cioe975.ca.
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- Dick Sexton
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Carter part?
Measure its length. Measure the length from the bend to the short end. As best you can, measure the diameter of the rod. Email or PM me, also post on here. If I have the material I'll bend it up and send it to you.
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While you're in there checking hte pull and pedal rods etc: https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=276772
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Thanks for the advice/offers guys. I needed a 3/32 inch rod, and the smallest I could find at a hardware store was 1/8 inch. Luckily my friend had a junk pile in his basement with a few rusty old 3/32 rods, and we were able to clean one up, bend it, cut it, and stick it in the steel. Everything's back to normal for now.
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Great job!
Friends with skills are essential at times. Glad it turned out well!
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Re: Great job!
True that!Dick Sexton wrote:Friends with skills are essential at times. Glad it turned out well!
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Need help repairing steel
If you have need for 3/32" pull rods to keep your steel guitar performing. Check with your local Welding Supply Store. Some stock 1 lb. sleeves of Stainless Steel Heli-Arc rods. Supplier Mattheson, Part No. MSS 308L T500 MS. 14 33" smooth stainless steel rods that bend very nice and thread easy with 4-40 die and a few drops of oil. Cost $12.00 at my local welding supply store.
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Hey Nick, this might not be applicable in this case, but you do know that we have 2 great repairmen/restorers just a few hours away, right?
Tommy Cass in Baldwinville, Mass.
John Widgren down in the Danbury area.
>even finding other pedal steel players isn't easy.
You can find a dozen on Sat Oct 5 at the RISGA annual show. Come on down. And I will play at the Parlour on Friday Oct 4, my regular first Friday gig there.
Chris
Providence
Tommy Cass in Baldwinville, Mass.
John Widgren down in the Danbury area.
>even finding other pedal steel players isn't easy.
You can find a dozen on Sat Oct 5 at the RISGA annual show. Come on down. And I will play at the Parlour on Friday Oct 4, my regular first Friday gig there.
Chris
Providence
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