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    Default Snakehead tuners

    I recently acquired the most wonderful blacktop early 1925 snakehead, that is so clean and farm fresh, and is generous to my ears beyond beyond my ability to verbally express. There is a problem though. The square end Wavery tuners, with plates that reflect as clearly as a fine mirror, are not operating easily. I took them apart, no cleaning of old lube or grime of any kind needed, and with the gear and shaft removed they are still very stubborn. I sprayed some PB Blaster on them, and they loosened a bit, but not much. Any ideas on what my next steps should be? I know I need to get some high pressure grease and lube them up, but I wondered if there might be some thing I am missing.
    A wrong note played timidly is a wrong note. A wrong note played with authority is an interpretation.

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    Default Re: Snakehead tuners

    1 quick search, and here you have a good starting place:

    http://www.lutherie.net/tuner.maintenance.html


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    Default Re: Snakehead tuners

    If you had taken them apart to service them as described in Dobe's link and they still don't turn nicely, then perhaps a replacement may be the ticket

    http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/M...in_Tuners.html
    http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/M..._Mandolin.html

    And while they are practically a drop in replacement for the originals, it is possible that the new bushings may be a tad too big for the original holes. I ordered the ones from the first link, and lo and behold the bushings wouldn't fit. I ended up reusing the old bushings with the new tuners, and they seem to work OK, albeit a bit tight.

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    Default Re: Snakehead tuners

    HELLO Brian....i`m glad to see you posting again...Long time no hear anything from you....Good luck with those tuners....

    Willie

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