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b0b


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Cloverdale, CA, USA
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 8:29 am    
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I wonder how many parts are used in the various brands and configurations. Anyone have any numbers?
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Richard Sinkler


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Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 9:06 am    
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I tried to figure that out on my Carter, but just ended up in a psych hospital. Laughing Laughing
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Ross Shafer


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Petaluma, California
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 9:51 am    
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gonna be a whole lotta stuff, if you're counting every little screw, nut, bolt, washer, etc.

I do know that a Sierra changer (Session, Olympic, etc. , not the artist). Has somewhere around 35 parts per string and that's not counting the main pivots, changer mounting bits...right there ya got 350 + parts for a 10 string. Yowza!!
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Marco Schouten


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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 11:06 am    
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First you'll have to define what you count as a part. Do you count every screw? is a changer finger 1 part or is each scissor counted separately? etc.
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Erv Niehaus


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Litchfield, MN, USA
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 12:03 pm    
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5,263 and 1/2 (a screw twisted off) Very Happy
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b0b


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Cloverdale, CA, USA
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 12:32 pm    
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Erv Niehaus wrote:
5,263 and 1/2 (a screw twisted off) Very Happy

Seems a bit high. What brand is that? I assume a D-10.
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Erv Niehaus


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Litchfield, MN, USA
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 12:37 pm    
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Actually it's 5,264 and 1/2, I dropped a part on the floor. Very Happy
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Henry Matthews


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Texarkana, Ark USA
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2017 5:49 am    
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Bob, it takes about 50 parts (plus or minus 4) on an Emmons push pull to activate 1 pedal and pull two strings. That's counting everything that moves when a pedal is pushed. Not counting any body or pedal rack parts, just parts that move. Very interesting, wouldn't have thought there was that many. I counted every screw and all but did from memory is why the plus or minus.
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Per Berner


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Post  Posted 27 Apr 2017 6:30 am    
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Counting every single element (like washers, pickup magnets, all the parts that make up the output jack, gears in the tuning machines etc.), I would guesstimate somewhere around 650-800 parts for an all-pull SD10 4x5, adding 3Γ’β‚¬β€œ400 if it has ball/roller bearings for the cross shafts and the changer fingers.
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Adam Pettis


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Appleton, WI
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2017 6:02 pm    
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There are about as many parts as licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop:


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