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Samson007  





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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:22 am    Post subject: Broken Whammy Bars Reply with quote

Ok, im sure there are or were topics on this before, but I have looked and cant find them.

Both of my whammy bars now lie totally lifeless against the guitar. No spring at all, isnt there something I can do with a rubber band to fix this? If someone could explain that process to me it would be greatly appreciated.
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Riz  





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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The general gist of the solution is to get a fairly heavy duty rubber band, or two. Drape them over your whammy bar. Now pull them towards the cord end of the SG, which will pull the whammy bar up in the process. Grab the plug from the cord, and pull it, and the trailing cord, through the rubber bands... once it's all the way pulled through, stretch the rubber bands out and hook them over the strain relief for the cord at the body of the SG. If your rubber bands are too long for this configuration to apply tension to the whammy bar, loop them in half first. Experiment to get a configuration you like, tension wise (number of bands/loops).

There's pics of this around here somewhere, but darned if I can find them at the moment.

Riz.
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Shin  





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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe I read somewhere it's best to remove the spring too.
I removed it, and it works great with just the rubber bands.
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katamakel  





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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I posted a picture of my rubber-band fix for it here.
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Riz  





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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not quite the same fix, but thanks for that anyway. I was sure there was also a pic of the external rubber band fix, but I still can't find it...

Riz.
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Crazed  





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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GameOver wrote:
two minutes worth of google came up with this

http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=5164
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BadgerBomber  





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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yay!!!
Finally a way to fix my guitar!
Thanx for posting some of those answers Crazed, Katamakel and Riz.
Otherwise i was going to make a post about this anyway.
Thats just made my day!
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SFunk  





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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ugh...just earlier today, I glued those "pressing dogs" back on and just put it back together...guess next time they break I know what to do
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vct  





Joined: 31 Oct 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A picture of the "external whammy bar fix" can be found here:
http://scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5093

I tried both methods with my GH1 controller - the internal fix obviously looks better, but the external one seems to apply more "power" to the bar, which feels more like it originally was. I guess you could correct that with stronger rubber bands though.
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wupun  





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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've tried the external fix but it doesn't even whammy at all.

What's gone wrong?

Edit: Doesn't matter, i fixed it now.
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