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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:45 am
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What is the best way to remove the part of the broken tremelo arm that remains in the threaded part of the block?? I am working on a guitar for someone who broke the bar, and the threaded section that is left is below the level of the trem plate, and I cannot grasp it to remove it, and no access exists from the bottom of the block.
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:48 am
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Get an "Easy out" extractor or get a replacement block with trem arm.

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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:51 am
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Without a drill press, you'll wreck the block anyway. I've had the same trem and block in my Strat for 35 years and use it heavily and never broke one.


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63supro wrote:
Without a drill press, you'll wreck the block anyway. I've had the same trem and block in my Strat for 35 years and use it heavily and never broke one.


You know I really can't understand how so many people are breaking trem arms. How much force are they using to dive bomb?

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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:27 am
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You got me Chet. It's either that or they used better materials way back.


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CAFeathers wrote:
63supro wrote:
Without a drill press, you'll wreck the block anyway. I've had the same trem and block in my Strat for 35 years and use it heavily and never broke one.


You know I really can't understand how so many people are breaking trem arms. How much force are they using to dive bomb?


Indeed! Lotta folks jumping up and down on their Strats a la Stevie Ray, is all I can think.

And +1 on the Easy Out screw extractor. Makes short work of this problem, and you'll be surprised how often you find other uses for it too. (Though not on your guitar: it's too big for screws much smaller than a whammy thread...)

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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:38 am
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Well, problem solved.
I removed the block from the trem plate, and it exposed about 1/8" of the broken arm. I used the tried and true method...TORCH!! I heated up the block, and used a pair of vise grips to grasp the little nub of the arm that showed. It worked, as I was able to unthread the broken bit!! Yahoo!!!


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paisley strat wrote:
Well, problem solved.
I removed the block from the trem plate, and it exposed about 1/8" of the broken arm. I used the tried and true method...TORCH!! I heated up the block, and used a pair of vise grips to grasp the little nub of the arm that showed. It worked, as I was able to unthread the broken bit!! Yahoo!!!


Yeah, I guess that method will work too. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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CAFeathers wrote:
63supro wrote:
Without a drill press, you'll wreck the block anyway. I've had the same trem and block in my Strat for 35 years and use it heavily and never broke one.


You know I really can't understand how so many people are breaking trem arms. How much force are they using to dive bomb?


I've never broken one, but a friends 2 year old knocked his off a stand once (another argument for my belief that you should hang your guitars whenever possible, and that those stands are only for spare guitars on stage,) anyway, it had the trem arm in, and that broke, no other damage at all. We used the 'easy out' extractor, worked like a charm.

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