Fellow guitarists, please help me!

[gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org]

Fellow guitarists, please help me!

My neighbor has a #Fender #Stratocaster (made in Mexico).

Which size are the grub screws at the end of the strings (inside the small holes on the sides)?

I tried a 1 mm Allen key, but it's "huge".

Could it be a 0,70 mm (or a 3/64")?

#FediHelp #guitar

[cvtsi2sd@hachyderm.io]

@GustavinoBevilacqua my 2008 Mexican Strat uses a 1.5 mm hex key, but it looks like the bridge is completely different; I looked it up and _of course_ there's a whole world of different Fender bridges out there https://www.fuzzfaced.net/ponte-stratocaster.html , the one you posted seems like a "2 pivot, 1/16" string spacing", as found on "Classic Player (Made in Mexico)" strats

[gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org]

@cvtsi2sd

Thanks!

The 1mm key is too large for the screw, and here the only one I know with smaller keys is the Rolex maintenance… I told my neighbor to visit them just to know the size of the key, so he can buy his own.

[cvtsi2sd@hachyderm.io]

@GustavinoBevilacqua he may also have some unexpected luck with the multi-bit small screwdrivers sets... I just checked mine and it does have a 1.3 and 0.9 hex bit (probably actually 2 and 3 64th of an inch?)

Also, maybe it's obvious but: did he check his guitar bag? I'm almost certain that my guitar came with the relevant hex keys (now, where did they end up it's an entirely different matter)