neepheid

Right, I've taken the screw out of one of mine and can tell you the following about the screw: Size: M2.5 Thread: Metric Fine (0.35mm pitch - course is 0.45mm) Total length (including head): 18mm Now, I have a set of GB7 knockoffs which I was going to raid for parts anyway and I took the screw out of one of those. It is slightly longer at 19.75mm, and has a slightly smaller head, but I put that screw in my genuine GB7 tuner and it tightened up fine - there must be some tolerance built into the design to accept the slightly longer screw. Here they are side by side (and length difference heavily exaggerated by the macro lens - I measured them both with digital callipers) If you'd like me to send you this screw, noise me up in a PM and we'll get it sorted. But if you just want to take the info above to find your own screw, then no worries.

What are these super special capacitors which can only be sourced from the States?

I'll update this tonight with my findings... stay tuned.

OK, well for my own curiosity if nothing else, I'll still see if I've got a suitable replaceable screw anyway and if I find one, I'm happy to send you it.

I have these tuners on one of my basses also: They're good tuners, well worth replacing that screw if you ask me. Let me have a rummage in my spares boxes and see what I can find.

Oh and another thing, you won't find those Gotoh GB7s (if indeed they're even called GB7s) anywhere but the second hand market, especially those ones with the plastic, fluted bit below the button. The modern day GB707 has a different shaped button.

Take another one out, and measure it, then get a replacement? It's just a case of getting the correct screw. Perhaps a local, friendly fastener supplier could help? Contact Gotoh?

Well, keep your beady eyes off of mine!

Let's not dirty up January any further, I'll have to check back previous years but I think it might be a record breaking one. Plus international bass purchasing can be stressful so let's not jinx it with a declaration just yet, eh? We eagerly await your imminent arrival and I'm taking an executive decision to mark your failure down as date of safe arrival. Not the same thing as getting a next day delivery from Andertons etc. is it?

Well, your post seemed coy, I was unsure how final it was. Plus we don't know what it is yet, so I can't accurately record what caused your exit. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Thanks for pointing that out. First page edited, Jan summary will be amended shortly.

Well, if no amount of settings tweaking can make them work satisfactorily then I guess they are "defective" and it's not your fault they've been insufficiently spec'ed... As for the iPad, I wouldn't even bother reporting it, IMO it's consumer electronics and out of the scope of any tier of this challenge, regardless of what you use it for.

Boss Poly Shifter to the rescue. -4 semitones will be pushing it though. Be good enough for live.

Oh god, that reminds me, that song's on my to-do list as well. Fscking bricking it, mate. Apart from some of the intricacies, it's as much a memory test as anything else!

A fiendish and convoluted plan I wish I had thought of now!