micro-tilt adjustment

[deckard]

Hi all, can anyone tell me where I might find a replacement screw for the neck tilt-adjustment on an early 80's MM Stingray bass? The previous owner took it out and glued a shim into the neck-heel (yikes). I've seen shims before, but never glued, and I had to remove it because even with the truss-rod loose, the neck was still too straight, almost to the point of being back-bowed...

Thanks!

 

[Ole Man Blues]

I can only say to contact EB customer service.........

 

[Ken Baker]

Hi all, can anyone tell me where I might find a replacement screw for the neck tilt-adjustment on an early 80's MM Stingray bass? The previous owner took it out and glued a shim into the neck-heel (yikes). I've seen shims before, but never glued, and I had to remove it because even with the truss-rod loose, the neck was still too straight, almost to the point of being back-bowed...

Thanks!

If the 3 bolt neck is anything like the ones that I'm familiar with from Fullerton, you can take the neck down to your local Ace Hardware store and find what you need. Should be a standard hex socket set screw.

Just promise that you'll be very careful when adjusting the neck tilt. The 3 bolt design is actually quite solid, but over-adjustment of the tilt screw by the uninitiated can sometimes result in a ski-jumped neck.

Ken...

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Hi all, can anyone tell me where I might find a replacement screw for the neck tilt-adjustment on an early 80's MM Stingray bass? The previous owner took it out and glued a shim into the neck-heel (yikes). I've seen shims before, but never glued, and I had to remove it because even with the truss-rod loose, the neck was still too straight, almost to the point of being back-bowed...

Thanks!

Firstly...welcome to the Forum.

You may have a misunderstanding about the shim. All it will do is adjust the angle of the neck with respect to the body in order to allow sufficient up/down adjustment travel of the string saddles. It's not an adjustment for relief of the neck. Only the truss adjustment will do that.

If the neck is still too straight with the truss backed off, it may help to use tighter tension strings.

As to the tilt screw, it may still be in the neck but backed off to the point where you cant see it. Along with that, if the wrong size hex wrench is used, it can give the impression there's no screw in there at all.

 

[deckard]

Well, yesterday I finally remembered to finish this project...

Sure enough, I was able to find a hex socket set screw that fit (10-32 x 1/2", and at ACE too!)...

The original one was definitely missing, and I am familiar with using the tilt-adjustment so I am now good to go.

Thanks for the tip Ken, and thanks to everyone else as well for taking the time to respond and help.

- Charles

 

[Musicman Nut]

Hi all, can anyone tell me where I might find a replacement screw for the neck tilt-adjustment on an early 80's MM Stingray bass? The previous owner took it out and glued a shim into the neck-heel (yikes). I've seen shims before, but never glued, and I had to remove it because even with the truss-rod loose, the neck was still too straight, almost to the point of being back-bowed...

Thanks!

That ole Micro Tilt comes up again, yes any ole Hardware Store will have a screw to fix that,
With doing many test over my life time with those Seventies stingrays I have found once you lift the heal of the neck off the body the amount of Bottom & Sustain you loose is incredible, So I'm just not a Fan of them at all. DJ

 

[deckard]

Yep - I'm aware of that aspect of using the tilt-adjustment as well.

The shim that had been glued into the neck-pocket was too thick, and even with the trussrod completely loose, there was still back-bow.

Once I got the shim out, I was able to use the trussrod & saddles to get everything to my liking.

It was more a matter of not liking the fact that someone removed the set screw and my desire to get everything "factory" again.

- Charles