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Originally Posted by RJVB
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07-25-2022 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
Good idea with a drill press anyhow, hand drilling something round with a app. 2 mm drill can be bit shaky.
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Originally Posted by RJVB
Last edited by Hammertone; 08-02-2022 at 03:24 PM.
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I got a eureka moment on another forum: it's trivial to remove the posts from open-back tuners like my Sta-Tites.
So, I got me some 8mm OD by 6mm ID brass and acrylic tubing, and set to play with the acrylic tube first. I think the pics are self-explanatory. I'm still waiting on a "hand-held drill press" so I went the not-done route for the holes: a soldering iron. (27°C in the coolest room of the house, some light DIY tinkering was about the only useful thing I could do).
I only did the lowest 2 strings for now (but prepared the caps for the others) as those tuners were still bare. Did & redid btw, because 2 drops of CA glue didn't suffice to block the caps even against the low tension of a nylon A and low E.
Meanwhile I saw that Thomann sell a Sta-Tite version designed for slothead steelies, so with posts of the same diameter but without the waist and with 2 holes. I may get a set of those; with a larger contact surface it should be less of an issue to fix caps in a non-slip fashion.
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