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Hi,


I have a 1988 JG/BT refinned to MG

Think I found my tuning problem


can anyone take a pic of the headstock with tuner and peghead bushing installed and all strung up?


a few close macro up close shots would help.....


my peghead bushings are plastic, and that doesn't seem right.....

thanks!

al


here is a better explanation......


this is the story

the peghead bushing lookss like a hard plastic and is flush with the headstock



wouldnt the peghead bushing be.......

metal

have a "grommett like" bump over the headstock surface, instead of being flush?


help....

if anyone can take a close photo of the headstock, right at the tuner to peghead bushing to headstock surface contact point, it would help


I think I am gonna need to get new peghead bushings....


do they sell them seperate?



thanks

I have no pics, but the bushings on my 1988 4003 BT Rick are indeed plastic. In 1988 the chrome hardware 4003's got the same metal bushings that are still used on the 4003 today. The BT Ricks (back then in '88 anyway) appear to me to have used the same black plastic bushings as RIC used in the late 70's on all the open-backed nickel-plated reverse tuners.

I know your tuners aren't the same as on this '79, but are your bushings the same? The bushings on my BT '88 4003 are.

I don't know about the BT variety, but the chrome ones look like this and I don't see any plastic there. What I do see is that I need to dust my headstock.

rickaddict wrote:I know your tuners aren't the same as on this '79, but are your bushings the same? The bushings on my BT '88 4003 are.

Hey rick addict



if your '88 BT has these kinda bushings.....that is what I need!


any one else with black trim can you confirm?


and, how do I get those?


---hens teeth, I feel it!---


big al

yah!

that is prolly the issue


see how the bushing comes up out of the hole, and then "spreads" like a grommet?


mine doesn't


it is inserted in the hole, and is cut "flush" with the headstock surface


( a pic is worth 1000 words, but camera problems!)

so, my peghead bushing grommets have been modified, ----just like the rest of the bass-- ahahahahha~!


hey at least I am learning what makes this thing tick! ----and I take stuff apart anyway, it was doomed from the start!---hehehhe


SO HERE IS THE QUESTION.....

Can I buy just the peghead bushings?

the originals?

or a working aftermarket?


or, do I have to buy the hipshot tuners? they are like 108usd on ebay for the black ones, and come with the bushings



------------I think this will fix my tuning problem, cuz the bushing is allowing the tuning peg to move. and, I can hear the bushings "squeak" sometimes when I tune......



--and next, the hipshot bridge!--- looks so cool

so, I am almost there!


any way to buy them ----those little black plastic bushin grommet like thingy's, like on rickaddict photos...seperate?---without buying the whole tuner assembly?


thanks!

big al
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A couple of the internet music parts retailers sell replacement tuner bushings for bass. I saw them last week while looking around for tuners, but I can't remember who had them. Not sure if any would fit.

I doubt you'll be able to find the black plastic ones new anywhere. Maybe try posting an ad in the Rick Wanted section of this forum. Somebody here might have a set lying around.

hmmmm

good idea!


will check it out



I am gonna post an ad as well



al

thanks for all the info!

I think that Stew-Mac might have them ... let me check ... ACK! Only guitar bushings!

Nothing at Mojo ... or AllParts ... but, there are some black ones here:

http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/bass_tunerparts.htm

but I'd ask what the dimensions are before getting them.

Edit: looks like you found the same page that I did! I'm not sure what the dimensions mean, but it probably is the hole diameter, not the largest outside dimension.

My '91 BT 4003S bushings look like the pic Jeff posted:
http://www.rickresource.com/phpBB3/view ... 59#p440429

doc who....

yes the fender bass tuners are much thicker


john ....

yes those are the bushings i dont have them


hopefully some will turn up


I am gonna post an ad on wanted here .....

any other suggestions?


big al


thanks!

thanks


called jason at hipshot

[email protected]


he is sending me peghead bushings, 3 dollars each 2 bux ship

hopefully problem solved for 14 dollars


hey if not, I am gonna hafta do the total hipshot upgrade!


bridge and tuners!




big al