Can't find trussrod adjuster

[MikeC]

I have just aquired Guild S200T in mint condition, it still has the shipping plastic in the pickguards and pickup tops etc.
I noticed the trussrod needs a minor adjustment, so I removed the cover from the headstock, and found what seems to be the end of the trussrod. The only trouble now is that I can't find a socket in the end showing to be able to adjust it. Any ideas or suggestions will be appropriated.
Regards Mike

 

[davismanLV]

So you don't see a nut on threads? This is a case where a photo would help immensely. If the guitar is "like new" it's hard to imagine someone has fussed with the truss rod. But again, a photo would help.

 

[Wilmywood]

Both my '72 G37 and '00 DV 52 use a 1/4" nut driver or thinwall socket for adjustment

 

[fronobulax]

Both my '72 G37 and '00 DV 52 use a 1/4" nut driver or thinwall socket for adjustment

I think the question is about a Newark Street electric. The expectation is that there will be an adjusting nut that could be tweaked with a nutdriver. I seem to recall cases where the Newark Street Guilds used metric fittings.

 

[Default]

Metric Allen wrench, isn't it?

 

[davismanLV]

Metric Allen wrench, isn't it?

Oh yeah, I think you're right. I kinda remember having this convo recently??

 

[Boneman]

Yea, in this case a picture would be worth an upload

 

[MikeC]

I have found the answer to the problem, I have been used to adjusting truss rods with Alen keys. This is the first of many guitars that have a hex nut on the end of the trussrod, on first look I could not see it as it had a talc like powder covering it, so I will have to find a thin body socket to fit.
Thanks to all who replied , I appreciate that

 

[davismanLV]

If you have an orange handled (or whatever color) screwdriver that does from big/little phillips/flathead.... it's a 1/4 inch drive with a thin wall. Yank the bit out of one, and shove it in there.... narrow walls and such. Yup!!

 

[MikeC]

I have a kit which has security screw sockets which fit into a driver hand piece, I think that has 1/4" socket to take the fittings in my workshop, I will try that later once it warms up a bit.
Once again thanks for the reply.

 

[davismanLV]

I have a kit which has security screw sockets which fit into a driver hand piece, I think that has 1/4" socket to take the fittings in my workshop, I will try that later once it warms up a bit.
Once again thanks for the reply.

Once it warms up? Where are you??? It's 107 here at almost 7 pm..... using HUGE amounts of energy to keep my home at 74!! I miss the cold.... c'mon October!!

 

[MikeC]

I am in Western Australia, it's winter here, it was 5 degrees centigrade this morning.
I have the problem fixed now thanks to you guys.
A 1/4" was far too small, so I went through my sockets and found the one that fitted was a 7 metric so all good now.
Thanks again,. Mike

 

[fronobulax]

Thanks for confirming my recollection that this instrument was likely to be metric.

The talc powder like substance is probably a lubricant. Someone found something similar on a new instrument, expressed a concern to Guild and was it was a lubricant the factory used. It was an issue because there were concerns the instrument had been tampered with but sold as new.

 

[hansmoust]

The talc powder like substance is probably a lubricant.

The talc powder like substance that you find in truss rod cavities, pickup cavities and cavities for the volume- and tone controls is the residue of the buffing compound that is used in combination with the buffing wheels to give the instrument its final gloss.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Thanks for confirming my recollection that this instrument was likely to be metric.

The talc powder like substance is probably a lubricant. Someone found something similar on a new instrument, expressed a concern to Guild and was it was a lubricant the factory used. It was an issue because there were concerns the instrument had been tampered with but sold as new.

I could be wrong, but I would expect that all the current models, apart from those made in Oxnard, will be metric

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Thanks for confirming my recollection that this instrument was likely to be metric.

The talc powder like substance is probably a lubricant. Someone found something similar on a new instrument, expressed a concern to Guild and was it was a lubricant the factory used. It was an issue because there were concerns the instrument had been tampered with but sold as new.

Hans'd! LOL!

 

[fronobulax]

The talc powder like substance that you find in truss rod cavities, pickup cavities and cavities for the volume- and tone controls is the residue of the buffing compound that is used in combination with the buffing wheels to give the instrument its final gloss.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

Yes. I knew that. Buffing compound. I wish I had remembered to write that. Thank you.

 

[fronobulax]

I could be wrong, but I would expect that all the current models, apart from those made in Oxnard, will be metric

I am similarly inclined but because something in my memory makes me think buffing compound is a lubricant I'm safest expressing an opinion or an expectation and not a statement of fact.