How To Clean And Lubricate Enclosed Gutar Tuners

Tune-up Special at Dan's Garage:

Lube task for tuners

Practise your sometime guitar tuners demand a fifty,000-song oil change? Become them working smoothly over again: flush out the dirt and stale-up lubricant, and oil the gears. Here's how we grease monkeys do this in my service station:

Allow'south requite these old tuners an oil change

One side at a time, I clamp the tuners into my nut & saddle vise and affluent them out with naphtha solvent — forcing the solvent in and out with a plastic pipette. This dissolves the old grease.

Don't contaminate your naphtha past dipping the muddied pipette back into the can. Instead, pour some naphtha into a mixing cup.

The naphtha drains out and dries chop-chop, and I don't worry much virtually any solvent remaining in the housing — it will mix with the petroleum jelly that I've loaded into my "grease gun" (a large-size glue syringe).

Here's a neat fox!

Why push the grease through a full-length needle? Instead, I trim the needle short with nippers. The trick is to slide a .016" guitar string into the needle before cut. This keeps the tube from collapsing as it'due south cut.

The glue syringe makes a great grease gun. I go out this one loaded with petroleum jelly, a grease that contains no silicone. (Continue silicone away from instrument finishes considering it resists stop touchups and is next to impossible to remove.)

A brand-information technology-yourself syringe:

In a pinch, yous can make a tiny grease gun by cut the acme off the clasp-bulb of a pipette. Make full it with grease, and use any 1/2" circular rod as a plunger.

Utilize a power screwdriver and an EZ-Winder to wind the tuner forward and backward quickly as you squeeze in the petroleum jelly. The moving parts spread the grease to where it'south needed.

These tuners are working smoothly now, and set up for lots of miles before their next scheduled maintenance!

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