Any suggestions for new tuning machines...

Ken McChord · Post by **Ken McChord** » 26 Feb 2006 4:49 pm

Hey All,
Thanks to all that have emailed and posted regarding my earlier question. I'm pretty set on the tunings I am going to use. I bought a 52 Fender Dual Pro 8 string, and one of the tuners is stripped. Can anyone suggest a place to order a replacement? It's the front neck that is stripped, the back is working just fine, although I will probably replace them both since the back seems pretty well aged too. Over all for a guitar built in 1952 this is in great shape. I'll take some pics and post it, but I'm figuring this is probably a fairly common steel. Under the front tuning machine I found the inscription "EM 4-24-52" in red ink, does that sound authentic?

Thanks again!

Ken McChord

Gary Boyett · Post by **Gary Boyett** » 26 Feb 2006 5:11 pm

Try this:

Fender Tuner

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Do it with "Glass"
Boyett's Glass Bars

Ken McChord · Post by **Ken McChord** » 26 Feb 2006 5:24 pm

Thanks but not the same type. My tuning machine plate wraps around the top, unlike the kind posted there.

Thanks non the less, I appreciate the tip.

ken

Ron Victoria · Post by **Ron Victoria** » 26 Feb 2006 6:06 pm

I repaired one once before. You can read it here. If you need my help, let meknow.
Ron
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum1/HTML/002699.html

Ken McChord · Post by **Ken McChord** » 27 Feb 2006 6:55 am

It looks like the gear on the back of the tuner has three teeth that are stripped. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement gear? Otherwise I know that there are fender reissue steels, would there be new replacement tuning machines that I can get for it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Bill Creller · Post by **Bill Creller** » 27 Feb 2006 10:46 am

Hi If you could post a picture, more people could see exactly what you need.
BILL

Brett Habben · Post by **Brett Habben** » 2 Mar 2006 6:56 pm

Before giving up and replacing them all, have you dug through all dead machine buckets at your local music stores? If it's only one machine, just fix that one. It takes a big soldering iron but you can get them off and back on. I was lucky enough to find a usable gear to repair one of the machines on my '51 by digging through the dead machine buckets.