Newbie, 75'er 4000 and a stupid question

palmann · Post by **palmann** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:14 am

No, they're not flopping around. The neck seems to be ok for now. Didn't move since my last posting.

EDIT: Just saw, that Bob already answered a lot of my questions. I read over it the first time.

Gruesse, Pablo

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:34 pm

I don't know Pablo the walls of that 1/4" wrench look very thick to me unless the picture is very distorted. I use a tool I bought at Sears, it's a screwdriver with a 1/4" female end that takes different nutdriver attachments, the nutdriver attachments have very thin walls but are hardened steel and very strong. If you have any Sears near you at all they will come in a set of tools, even a small 20 dollar set.
I like Ted's explanation of how to get dug in truss rods out of the wood.

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:42 pm

It is a bad pic. The tool he has appears to be the Excelite L8 sold by RIC. Besides Pablo lives in Germany. The nearest Sears store might be a bit of a drive for him.

So you like my hastily snapped pics?

I figured that pictures could say it much faster than I could. I will save them then for future reference. Thanks Bob!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:12 am

I thought it might be a ways away. There are or were Sears in Perú though, so thought it was worth a shot. Yes those are great pictures, explains a very hard thing to put into words easily.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:14 am

F W I W, Sears also sells nut drivers that have integral handles and the red 1/4" driver has thin walls that fit just fine also.

palmann · Post by **palmann** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:13 pm

Bob,

yes, the picture is very distorted. It perhaps would have been better not to post it at all.

I didn't find a german Sears store and regrettably the US store doesn't ship internationally. I was looking for a 1/4" truss rod wrench for my alembic about a few months ago. A shop like this would have been perfect. By the way, I got a wrench for my Alembic from a Harley Davidson forum member for free, which is even better than a online store.

It's just unbelievable _how_ hard it is to get imperial tools like this here in Germany. It sometimes took me months, even with a lot of www research. I don't want to know how hard it was back in the seventies and eighties.

As an update: The neck didn't move since yesterday, I just checked.

Gruesse, Pablo