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Title: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: Hemisaurus on April 27, 2012, 11:53:06 AM
I've got the fingerboard partly off a neck, and I can see the truss rod. The head looks OK, not chewed up or anything (allen style) and the threads look a bit rusty, but otherwise OK. Is there anything I should do to it? Grease the threads or something?
Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: Discö Rice on April 27, 2012, 12:06:55 PM
I'm oiling up my truss rod now. I'd like it if you did the same.
Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: VOLVO))) on April 27, 2012, 12:54:20 PM
Quote from: Discö Rice on April 27, 2012, 12:06:55 PM
I'm oiling up my truss rod now. I'd like it if you did the same.

Answered properly!
Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: RacerX on April 27, 2012, 02:38:56 PM
Quote from: SunnO))) on April 27, 2012, 12:54:20 PM
Quote from: Discö Rice on April 27, 2012, 12:06:55 PM
I'm oiling up my truss rod now. I'd like it if you did the same.

Answered properly!

Properly = in gay code?
Title: Re: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: VOLVO))) on April 27, 2012, 02:48:04 PM
Yes.

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Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: bass sic on April 27, 2012, 03:03:31 PM
How do you have the fingerboard partly off? Just wondering.
Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: moose23 on April 27, 2012, 03:06:43 PM
Quote from: bass sic on April 27, 2012, 03:03:31 PM
How do you have the fingerboard partly off? Just wondering.

Presumably only one end has been lifted off the neck.
Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: Mr. Foxen on April 27, 2012, 04:05:05 PM
Maybe add washers so you have plenty of adjustment each way, if the wood has compressed, don't want to find its right at the end of its travel when its all together again.
Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: Hemisaurus on April 27, 2012, 04:25:50 PM
Quote from: bass sic on April 27, 2012, 03:03:31 PM
How do you have the fingerboard partly off? Just wondering.
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/545926_3036515278779_1439903504_32142120_1677519618_n.jpg)

Actual footage. ;)
Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: Hemisaurus on April 27, 2012, 04:26:43 PM
Quote from: Mr. Foxen on April 27, 2012, 04:05:05 PM
Maybe add washers so you have plenty of adjustment each way, if the wood has compressed, don't want to find its right at the end of its travel when its all together again.
Where do the washers go?

I should add I have the top bit of the fretboard off, at the headstock, and this is also where the adjuster is.
Title: Re: Truss rod maintenance
Post by: Mr. Foxen on April 28, 2012, 08:30:24 AM
Should be apparent from looking if you can determine if you need them from the same.