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Post subject: Selector Switch Woes
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:07 am
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Time for some open heart surgery on Odee, which is something of a pain as I have not long put him back together.

I bought what I thought was an Oak Gigsby assuming it should be top quality. Based on its premature failure I am left somewhat disappointed to say the least - I wont bother in future.

I do have a switch of the original 60's style, with the exposed spring, which I was going to fit after the respray but got carried away with the excitement of putting it all back together. The switch was fine then. That will teach me.

I am still to open Odee up but it feels like the switch pivot pin mounting has failed. The switch still works, although a bit temperamental, but the lever is very floppy both side to side as well as back and forth.

It does annoy me when you install or replace something which you assume will be better than the original (particularly when the original is working) and it fails in a short space of time.

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Post subject: Re: Selector Switch Woes
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:16 am
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There are Oak-Grigsby copies around which some UK parts sellers are advertising as the real thing. The Fender Modern Player Tele Plus have an Oak-Grigsby look-a-like fitted.
I much prefer the CRL with the visible spring switches.
Electroswitch, the company which owns the Oak-Grigsby name (and CRL) now manufacture them in Mexico so whether quality control is not as it should be I don't know. CRL are still afaik made in USA.


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Post subject: Re: Selector Switch Woes
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:41 am
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I ripped the faulty switch out last night and replaced it with the earlier style exposed spring type, which does feel rather nice.

The Oak Grigsby I fitted previously came apart on the shaft. There seems to be no mechanical connection between the lever and the axle shaft aside an interference fit, which seems a bit strange. I assume, if they are pressed together, and the hole in the lever is just a gnats smaller than the shaft, it relies on the crushing together to hold it. Seemingly this time it didn't.

I am very disappointed as it had be subjected to very little use.

On the plus side, I wanted to fit an exposed spring type being more appropriate to Odees 60's heritage.

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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:57 am
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Switch installed - Eric Johnson style routing - but then you would know that obviously. I like it because it looks much tidier than conventional routing. I have no idea why Mr Johnson took to doing it that way but, like I say, it seems much tidier and more obvious.

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Post subject: Re: Selector Switch Woes
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 10:25 am
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And would you credit it...the new one has started playing up.

I have to nudge it to the side to get a contact.

I am thinking that either the slot in the aluminium plate or the scratch plate is slightly misaligned (or both), pushing the lever over. Also, because it is a 60's style plate, with countersunk screws, the switch doesn't have any latitude on the fixings.

I can reduce the effect by slackening off the screws half a turn but the intermittent fault remains.

I'm not seeing much option but to open up the patient again which is a right pain in the bum.

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Post subject: Re: Selector Switch Woes
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:34 am
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:oops: Well that's embarrassing.

I was just a dry joint on the terminal from the volume pot. Pushing it a wiggling it created a contact and there was nothing wrong with the new switch at all. ....I'll get mi coat.

On the plus side ... aren't vintage split tuners just wonderful? Taking strings off and putting them back again (I'm not being cheap they were pretty well brand new) is but the work of an instant. You wonder why they ever changed.

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Post subject: Re: Selector Switch Woes
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:54 pm
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Well at least you got to the bottom of it John.
With regards to routing do you mean the wiring?
I think Eric went that way because it is vintage. Most of the early strats are wired that way I think. Maybe economics... :D


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