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Topic: WTB Large 5mm tuning wrench |
Marty Nemanick
From: Madera, California, USA
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Posted 18 Jun 2020 10:30 am
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If any of you folks know where I can get one of these, please let me know.
Thank you,
Marty |
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Erv Niehaus
From: Litchfield, MN, USA
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Gene Tani
From: Pac NW
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Posted 18 Jun 2020 12:27 pm
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5mil nut driver (not open/closed socket wrench): I looked for one at home depot, Lowes and harbor Freight recently, they only had 5mm sockets to fit racheting drivers but that works for nylon tuning nuts. _________________ - keyless Sonny Jenkins laps stay in tune forever!; Carter PSG
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Bobby D. Jones
From: West Virginia, USA
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Posted 2 Jul 2020 7:27 pm
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Buy a 5mm Deep Well Socket. A cheap one that has drillable steel in it. Drill a cross hole across the center of the square wrench hole and it works great. I keep this 3/16" in my pick bag for cranky tuning nuts.
Before you put to much force on a nut you want to go underneath and put strip of leather and 4" Vice Grips on rod so it does not damage the Bell Crank or rod connection. Someone had Knurled this one in a lathe before I got it in a trade. I drilled the cross hole and installed the cross rod. |
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Tom Bradshaw
From: Walnut Creek, California, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2020 3:57 pm Tuning Wrenches
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Michael Yahl tells me he will have them (hopefully) in 2 weeks. Check his web site (https://www.psgparts.com/BIG-Wrenches_c28.htm) in a couple of weeks to see if they are available. |
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Sam Shipstone
From: United Kingdom
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Posted 11 Aug 2020 3:47 pm
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Not on the psgparts website as of date.
Anyone else know where to get a 5mm wrench from?
I've tried to find a DIY/mechanical store hex driver, but they're all either:
1) Male ended, or
2) Have handles (or equivalent parts) that are far too short or thin. Given how hard you've seemingly got to drive tuning nuts on, and given I've got one stuck and it's not moveable with pliers, and it's swelled much larger than my 3/16" wrench, I just know these mechanical store drivers won't work, and that I need a wrench with a big handle, just like the "BIG wrench."
Anyone got any ideas? 3 months and counting being unable to play my guitar! |
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Marty Nemanick
From: Madera, California, USA
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Posted 11 Aug 2020 6:39 pm
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Sam, try searching for a Mac Tools stubby 5mm nut driver, I found one on ebay a couple of months back. It works great.
Marty |
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Donny Hinson
From: Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 12 Aug 2020 10:47 am
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Sam Shipstone wrote: |
Not on the psgparts website as of date.
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Oh yes they are!
https://www.psgparts.com/BIG-Wrenches_c28.htm
Sam Shipstone wrote: |
Given how hard you've seemingly got to drive tuning nuts on, and given I've got one stuck and it's not moveable with pliers... |
Pliers are the wrong tool because the tighter you grip the pliers on a plastic nut, the tighter you're actually making the nut. |
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Bobby D. Jones
From: West Virginia, USA
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Posted 14 Aug 2020 8:25 pm
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When you order new plastic tuning nuts for your steel, Make sure you give the pull rod diameter with the length for your steel. There is 3 sizes of the center hole in plastic tuning nuts. 3/32". 7/64" and 1/8". If a tuning nut with a smaller hole is put on a larger rod, It will swell the plastic nut and it will turn hard and swell till a 3/16" or 5mm socket will not fit on the nut to turn properly. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From: Louisville Ky
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Posted 14 Aug 2020 10:30 pm
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Last time I checked, psgparts.com showed out of stock on all the big 5mm wrenches.
Another option is one of the 1/4 in. drive finger ratchets. They range anywhere from a few bucks up to $75 or so for a Snap On.
These are reversible in direction but can locked by selecting the center position.
Downside is you have to have another piece in the proper size socket, but you could have both a 3/16 sae and a 5mm metric if you wanted this way. Pick up an inexpensive set of half deep or deep well 1/4 in. drive sockets.
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