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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
@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

Vive Levant
@Vive_Levant@masto.bike

@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org a question from the metric world : why do you say 3/64" and not 1/22" ?

Baron Von J
@baronvonj@mas.to

@Vive_Levant@masto.bike

Imperial is designed around maximizing divisions of denominators. With 64 you have 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32. With 22 you only have 1, 2, and 11. Start with a whole unit and to get more precision you halve the unit over and over. It's easier to mentally math the measurements when you're only x2 or /2 to convert. You can simplify it at the end if you want, but hardware is all made to the powers of two.

@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org

Paul Lalonde
@Flux@wandering.shop

@Vive_Levant@masto.bike All the fractions of an inch have power of two divisors. So you only need to multiply or divide by two. But by the time you're using 64ths for precision everyone moves to thousandths. @GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org