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Post subject: Anyone know hex key sizes for Modern Play Tele Plus?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:50 pm
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Got a new modern player telecaster plus, but the music store lost the hex keys and nothing they had fit the saddles or the truss rod. I wrote Fender, and they promptly sent a new set...but wrong size. The saddle adjusters are REALLY tiny. And the truss rod adjuster seems big (the key they sent slops around in the socket).


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Post subject: Re: Anyone know hex key sizes for Modern Play Tele Plus?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:33 am
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I don't know wich is your country , maybe USA . Go to buy a complete Allen key set at Home Depot, a good set like Husky brand. Allen key set are very usufull today. Be sure you don't buy a cheap set.

Sometimes ( to often IMO ) Fender Allene key are so cheap , they are loose on the nut and can dammaged it.

Some Auto parts store sell Allen key one by one, $0.75 to $1, bring your guitar to find the right one.


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Post subject: Re: Anyone know hex key sizes for Modern Play Tele Plus?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 7:05 am
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I bought one of the Modern Player Teles when they first came out. It comes with the smallest freakin' Allen wrench I have ever seen and naturally, when I was unpacking the guitar in the shop I set that wrench somewhere and then couldn't find it again. I have dozens and dozens of little Allen wrenches and not one of them is small enough to work in that guitar. You can NOT buy one small enough when you buy a set, I've tried everywhere!

In the end I took one of my smallest Allen wrenches and ground it down to the size needed by rubbing it very carefully on a sanding block. It didn't take much, but now I can adjust those bridge saddles. I have no idea why they made those set screw holes so incredibly tiny, except maybe as an example of Chinese humor. :|

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Post subject: Re: Anyone know hex key sizes for Modern Play Tele Plus?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 3:27 pm
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Your set are incomplete, too small.

I have a few set with all of those small and bigger allen I could need for anything , guitar, bass and appliances and everything.
One set is a Xcelite , an other is an Husky bought at Home depot and another , a cheap one, no name.

Those allen are standars tool


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