Old Adjustable Machine Heads / Tuners

[Adey]

I've got an old Matsumoku P Bass from late 1970s with ye olde Yamaha BB type tuners with the sleeve around the shaft to adjust the tuner tension. (Does anyone know who used to make these?) They look like this

 

Anyway, these should have a tiny litle C spanner to adjust them with. but hens teeth are probably more common these days. The C spanner would locate in the little holes and you can then tighten or loosen the sleeve up.

 

I couldn't find a satisfactory way to tighten them up without this spanner.... until now

 

I got one of these bulldog clips and took one of the arms off it

 

and then bent it

 

And it can then be fitted into the little holes perfectly and used to tighten and loosen

 

Just the job.....

 

🙂

Edited October 16, 2022 by Adey

[MoonBassAlpha]

Excellent!

[doomed]

Brilliant, my old 83 Tokai Jazz has very similar tuners, I'll be re-purposing a Bulldog Clip very soon.

[TheGreek]

This site is becoming more like Blue Peter all the time...

[songofthewind]

1 hour ago, TheGreek said:

This site is becoming more like Blue Peter all the time...

As an inveterate fiddler, I love that, and I just know you do too. In fact, this website should be renamed FiddlyChat.

[djc63]

This is the tool. I recently bought an 80s Yamaha BB which surprisingly came with original tool kit. Took me a few minutes to figure out what it was for!

Edited November 27, 2022 by djc63

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, djc63 said:

This is the tool. I recently bought an 80s Yamaha BB which surprisingly came with original tool kit. Took me a few minutes to figure out what it was for!

 

Originally intended to open very small bottles of beer?