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Topic: ShoBud leg repair |
Jerry H. Moore
From:
Newnan, GA, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2007 9:08 am |
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| The threaded insert on the end of my ShoBud Pro II legs are loose or even come out at times. One has been drilled and has a pin in it. Is this the fix or is there a better way? |
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Alex McCollough
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2007 10:28 am
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Can you just put the guitar in your lap?
You might need a taller chair. |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2007 10:37 am
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Use golf shaft epoxy. You can get it through Golf Works or Golfsmith or take your legs to a golf club repair shop. You can lossen with an alcohol lamp or a propane torch.
You can also use old fashioned ferrule cement which comes in a stick that you melt over al alcohol lamp or a gas flame and apply to the heated threaded insert. Just slide on and let cool -- thirty seconds -- and rub off the excess before it sticks for good. Get ferrule cement at a fishing store.
Whatever you do, clean the surfaces first with acetone. |
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Colby Tipton
From:
Crosby, Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2007 11:07 am
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Take a chisel and bugger up the insert until it is ruff as a cod (not to ruff) and knock it back into the leg.
Be careful how you hold the leg while you knock it back in. Not in a vise without padding or on the threads on the clutch end.
Use an old socket or pipe nipple to go over the threads on the insert.
My disclaimer, not my fault if you mess it up. |
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Jerry H. Moore
From:
Newnan, GA, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2007 11:32 am
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| Hey Alex, I don't know if you can tell in the picture or not but I don't have a lap. Thanks everybody for good advice.....except Alexander! And another thing Alex..why does Rudy have to have something in ALL your photo shoots! I saw the baseball 8=) |
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Tony Dingus
From:
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2007 11:49 am
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I repaired one of mine with J.B. Weld. I ruffed it up a little and it's till holding.
Tony |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2007 2:46 pm
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Out of the 50 or so Sho~bud's I've worked on; half of them had a leg socket loose. Every time I fixed them by pulling the plug up and put JB Weld in it; and slammed it shut and sat over night; and not a prob. with it at all.
Ricky
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Email Ricky: sshawaiian2362@gmail.com |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2007 6:21 pm
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I wouldn't be without JB Weld in my shop. I've also used it for loose leg plugs, and it also works great for fixing stripped out screw holes in wood body guitars. I mix it up and force it down into the hole with a tooth pick, let it set, drill the correct size pilot hole, then replace the screw. Viola? a tight fit, probably better than the original.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Joe Rouse
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 18 Jul 2007 2:09 am
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| J B Weld is the way to go, and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I haven't used it on legs for a psg but I have used it on many other items and it will do a good job. I found that following the directions on the package will help. I didn't in the past but I do now....Joe Rouse[code][/code] |
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