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What Size Allen Key?

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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    guitarjack66 said:

    I've actually got a set of these which I never even dreamed of using for a guitar!
    Don't use those. For one, there *is* a risk of putting too much torque on - it's usually not a hazard at all with a pure hand tool, but that ratchet handle or even the smaller tommy bar might do - but more importantly, the couplers between the extension sections are probably too large to fit through the hole in the top braces... or worse, are *just* small enough to fit through but snag on the way out and leave the last piece trapped in the guitar.

    You need a proper long Allen key if a standard one won't reach the 'wrong' way round. I actually wonder if Martin do this on purpose to make it harder to reach without their own proper tool. The new Fender Paramount acoustics are even more so, the Allen socket is right in the neck heel, several inches from the soundhole - although they do supply the correct tool as well.

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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    Be careful that you don't use the truss rod to adjust the action. It's a trap some fall into. I'm sure you know what the truss rod is for, just saying :) 
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2493
    T'is a fair point. A lad I went to school with actually thought he could adjust the fingerboard radius with the trussrod. Oops.
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    DLM said:
    T'is a fair point. A lad I went to school with actually thought he could adjust the fingerboard radius with the trussrod. Oops.
    You'd be surprised. I'm sure techs could tell some horror stories ;) 
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    DLM said:
    T'is a fair point. A lad I went to school with actually thought he could adjust the fingerboard radius with the trussrod. Oops.
    You can adjust the fingerboard radius on a vintage Rickenbacker with the truss rod if you're not careful.

    Very oops...

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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2493
    Quite. This was a Yamaha RGX121D, FWIW. I took it to a gig as a backup guitar once, and was very glad I had as I broke a string.
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