Removing the Bridge

[Golem]

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To remove a StingRay bridge [with mutes] ... is it
just those 3 screws at the back edge, or is there
something in those two little cylinders flanking the
row of saddles, or what ?

Please don't tell me to contact customer service

Thanks,
-G


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[adouglas]

Contact Customer Service.

Okay, now that that's out of the way....

The two cylinders are a key part of the secret of why MM basses sound so good. They are filled with pure liquid neutronium that resonates sympathetically with the body wood.

No, really.

Actually, the cylinders are the heads of a pair of bolts that are threaded into metal inserts in the body. So, yeah... remove screws, remove bolts and there you are.

But they really are a key part of the secret of why MM basses sound so good.

 

[Golem]

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So .... I'd just use an allen key and maybe
a squirt of WD40 to back out those bolts ?


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[jlepre]

 

[adouglas]

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So .... I'd just use an allen key and maybe
a squirt of WD40 to back out those bolts ?


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I don't know if I'd want to expose the finish on my bass to anything resembling a solvent... which includes WD-40.

You could just light the body on fire, let it burn down to ash, grab the threaded insert with a pair of vise-grips and loosen it that way.

Or not.

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

What's happenen?

 

[Golem]

What's happenen?

Burnin bridges


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[Golem]

I don't know if I'd want to expose the finish on my bass to anything resembling a solvent... which includes WD-40.

You could just light the body on fire, let it burn down to ash, grab the threaded insert with a pair of vise-grips and loosen it that way.

Or not.

OK, so just use an allen key and they should back out, yes ?


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[Rod Trussbroken]

The 2 side bolts and 3 plate screws and it should lift straight up.

 

[Golem]

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Munchos grossioze, Signores !


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[strummer]

You had to ask?

Chicken;-)

 

[4play]

So, you can tell us that fluorescent tubes shoot a 60hz AC current wirelessly down the length of the tube thru the ionized gas inside and while there is some 60hz broadcast from just about any piece of fairly straight wire carrying an AC current, the wireless current inside a fluorescent tube has a stronger broadcast and also is unfortunately usually perfectly horizontal so it's polarized to match the biggest part of your PU circuit which is the strings as the strings are inductively able to create current in the PU windings so it's not good to have your strings bombarded by RF signals but you needed to start a thread about removing a Music Man bridge?

 

[oli@bass]

The question is rather... is the bridge piezo or not...

 

[Golem]

The question is rather... is the bridge piezo or not...

We ams nod quiet dat duhmmnnnn ....




Reason I wondered about the side posts is that when I
peek inside [hard to see or get any light in there] I see
something that sorta looks like staking, or rivetting, as
if the posts might be just staked to the base plate and
serve only to keep the saddles gathered together. I do
try to look afore I leaps. Anywho, thanks to all for info.

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[TheAntMan]

Reason I wondered about the side posts is that when I
peek inside [hard to see or get any light in there] I see
something that sorta looks like staking, or rivetting, as
if the posts might be just staked to the base plate and
serve only to keep the saddles gathered together. I do
try to look afore I leaps. Anywho, thanks to all for info.

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WHOA!!!!

Who did you get to write that for you Golem? It is so clear and normal my head swam!!!

--Ant

 

[fevitz]

Hey golem , if theres any resistance to the separation of the bridge from the body it could be that the bridge may have stuck to the paint finish and is being held together from the pressure of the factory manufacture when it was built . A slight tap with a centre punch at the rear of the bridge where the strings thread through may be enough to separate the bond between the body and bridge .