Tremol-No Clean & Lube Video

This video shows you how to properly clean and lubricate your trem posts and knife edges so your trem works smoothly and returns to zero/neutral every time you use it.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tremol-No
• Guitar
• Maintenance
• Tremolo

[gotnoodle]

can you clean the crap off the rest of the trem using acetone aswell? cause theres alot of shit on mine :D

[TremolNo]

Yes, but remember that acetone is a brutal solvent.

Alcohol isn't quite as fierce and cleans almost as well.

[gauchofromhell]

A little tip: If you loosen the strings you'll make things easier.

[TremolNo]

I left the guitar tuned so that it would be in tune when it all went back together.

[superdeniz]

sorry about my bad english knowledge, but how ist called the maintenance stuff next to the acetone?

greets from germany, your videos are awesome

[TremolNo]

Thanks Super!

[TheMetalHeaD256]

@surgeyX well the reason for it is that some tremolos are built for certain guitars. there's usually a standard about how far away the tremolo posts are from each other, but lower-quality guitars sometimes have variation in that. so they make the knife edge curved on one side and flat on the other side so that it doesn't really matter that the posts are a perfect distance from each other. also a lot of REPLACEMENT trems (like the Gotoh) are made like this to fit on almost any guitar.

[TheMetalHeaD256]

@pissedoffsol yeah, well if you always change strings one at a time, you'll never be able to clean your fretboard or polish your frets. unless you're Stevie Ray Vaughn and are using 13's in standard tuning, your neck isn't gonna suffer greatly from not being tensioned for 10 minutes out of every month. every professional luthier i know (and i know some REALLY good ones) says there is no risk to the neck unless you're stringing your guitar with quarter-inch cables.

[surgeyX]

I always wondered why some trems have curved knife edges and some have flat, or one side curved and one side flat. What is the deal with that? I know you said its "part of the design" but can you elaborate?

[Meatybenji116]

Hey i have a question, the springs on my trem are really off, i noticed the back of ur guitar had really straight and balanced springs but on mine in order to keep the trem flat i have to adjust it and it kind of looks like urs at 4:26 do you knwo what i could do to fix this? thanks loads in advance!!

[Pananda]

amazing video! thak you so much!

[dmohr7]

wait so if u de tune the strings a bit u can lift it off without having to remove the strings?

[gtrnic]

Awesome video. Great detail!!

[pissedoffsol]

it likely won't break, but its not good for the neck. it can twist. do one at a time.

[girtha1134]

Damn this thing is $70 before shipping