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Wanted: black switch tip

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JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8372
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Hey you crazy cats!

Just taken delivery of this rather jolly B&G Little Sister.  Just find that the amber switch tip spoils the aesthetic and ruins my day.  Anyone got a spare black one in their parts tin?  Far as I can tell it' s just a bog standard switch...


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  • lewisandersonlewisanderson Frets: 33
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    Yup. One SE Asian switch tip design, available in several colours. 

    NOTE: American plastics will not fit. Thicker shaft, different thread.
    Be seeing you.
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  • JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8372
    Yup. One SE Asian switch tip design, available in several colours. 

    NOTE: American plastics will not fit. Thicker shaft, different thread.
    Egad! You’re right!

    I tried the tip from my Les Paul. 

    Aaaaaand the screw thread on the LP turns out to be quite a bit wider, so it falls off the B&G, and the B&G tip is too narrow for the LP. Who’d a thunk it?

    Tell me your terms, good @Funkfingers and let us transact for one of your finest narrow thread black switch tips.
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    If it is okay with you, I shall wait my turn in the queue. lewisanderson was first.
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  • LastMantraLastMantra Frets: 3819
    Goes with the chair though.
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  • JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8372
    Funkfingers said:
    If it is okay with you, I shall wait my turn in the queue. lewisanderson was first.
    Indeed he was, but our efforts foundered on metric/imperial incompatibility :(
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    In that case, I shall PM you later today.
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  • JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8372
    LastMantra said:
    Goes with the chair though.
    Our gaudy conservatory furniture really ties the room together.
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    Dang. I have a selector switch with one of those orangey plastic tips with the flat face around the thread hole.

    My surplus black switch tips are tapered at the hole end, the hole is narrower and the thread pitch is different.

    Forcing one of these tips onto your existing switch will probably strip the plastic away where the switch shaft thread needs to engage, defeating the object of changing the tip.

    Apologies for raising your hopes and wasting your time. 
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  • JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8372
    Funkfingers said:
    Dang. I have a selector switch with one of those orangey plastic tips with the flat face around the thread hole.

    My surplus black switch tips are tapered at the hole end, the hole is narrower and the thread pitch is different.

    Forcing one of these tips onto your existing switch will probably strip the plastic away where the switch shaft thread needs to engage, defeating the object of changing the tip.

    Apologies for raising your hopes and wasting your time. 
    Thanks for taking the time to check, and no probs, man: shattered hopes and wasted years are the meat and drink of aspiring guitar players :D
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  • flyingvflyingv Frets: 531
    edited August 2019
    Got one @JerkMoans - pm me you delivery deets, and I’ll chuck it into an envelope for you.
    https://i.imgur.com/GvM1Tj8.jpg
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