aaaahhh!!!! @$$#@ whammy bar

**quackadilly** · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1078 Location: Colorado

well I've broken my whammy bar for the 4th time.

Lucky me, I've managed to temporarily fix it every time.
One big problem I've noticed with mine is that th potentiometer gets all funny and quits.....then I have to spray contact cleaner in it which makes it good for about a month.

Anyone else having these problems or do I just wham the whammy bar too much?

**popemobile** · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 3879

i had to rubber band mine about a week ago

**krimsunmunkeys** · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject:

You can try adjusting the "potentiometer" (I hope I know what I'm talking about). If you look at it, there should be two screws holding the potentiometer in place. Loosen them (but don't remove them, because they can be a b**** to put back), and rotate the potentiometer to change where it registers whammy movement. Try making slight movements in different directions, retightening the screws, and testing how it affects the whammy. Obviously, test on a song that has a long note at the beginning for you to analyze it's effects. When it feels right, close the guitar and it should be fine. I had to do this a few days ago when my whammy stopped working, and it works fine now.

**rammy** · Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 59

How can you test it without closing the guitar? When the guitar is open, the strumbar is very loose and doesn't stay in place and so is the whammy bar (the bar can touch the body of the guitar itself when you activated it). So I dont think I would be able to strum the first note and test the whammy bar so I need to re-screw it everytime I try.
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