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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on March 4, 2014 at 10:26pm

Unfortunately those ones are not reversible so sounds like you've already painted yourself into a corner, better order more

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Permalink Reply by Barsymes Cratchnee on March 4, 2014 at 10:33pm

I dont see any issue with putting all the tuners on the bottom (right) side of the head stock.  You may or may not need to employ some string re-routing options (eye bolts), but should work fine if you have room on the head stock and your break angles (over the nut) are decent.  Obviously, the tuners are not reversible, but you seem to know that if I understand correctly.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on March 4, 2014 at 10:55pm

That's the plan. Thanks just needed to here it from someone else but me.
I've made 2 on the bottom 1 on the top before just fine...what's 1 more on the bottom with a good string retainer ? We'll see. Not my first choice but out of stock for a few weeks and I promised a cbg to dear friend who's sister just passed away suddenly. Haven't made the holes for the tuners yet with the hope the tuners would magically be avail sooner...oh well. I could use eyebolt tuners but I don't want to..plus I got 9 right side tuners so experimentation is next. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on March 5, 2014 at 1:24am

Well, do what you want but you could look closely at the tuners you have on hand and decide for yourself if it is possible to:

1. remove the screw
2. take gear off of post
3. pop worm out of clips
4. flip worm over
5. place gear on post
6. install the screw
7. repeat twice for set of three tuners oriented the way you prefer

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on March 5, 2014 at 4:21am

I'll be checking to see if this is possible. Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on March 5, 2014 at 4:42am

I think you will be pleased with your discovery. :D

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on March 5, 2014 at 6:01am

Amazing!!! Really, the best help here. 100% solid.- cant say thanks enough especially at a time like this ...!!!

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on March 5, 2014 at 7:51am

Robert which is worm? ..something's loose or I screwed up...ahh seems I've lost a washer..there's 2

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on March 5, 2014 at 10:19am

The worm is the part you turn engaging the gear which rotates the shaft affecting the string tension.

Take a breath, relax and simply put the thing back together.

Refer to one of the other tuners if necessary.

The only difference will be the end of the worm will need to point in the opposite direction.

The Capo Kid has pictures of the results in the thread concerning Shane Speal tuners.

This process is simple and you can do it.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on March 5, 2014 at 10:23am

Worked great and found the washer to. Thank you very much

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on March 5, 2014 at 11:22pm

You're welcome.

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on March 5, 2014 at 9:14pm

I stand corrected. I have a bunch of the trapezoidal open geared ones from gitty from around a year and a half ago or something and those ones are definitely not reversible, the worm gear doesn't easily pop out from the chassis. But I can see from that other thread there that the chassis has changed somewhat and now the worm gear is in a slot with an opening like most other open geared units. This is great news to me, I like this form factor a lot you can fit a lot into a tight space great for twelve strings Mandos etc

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