Telecaster Input Jack Problems!!! PLEASE HELP!!

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GlobalCooling
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Telecaster Input Jack Problems!!! PLEASE HELP!!

Post by GlobalCooling »

My telecaster's input jack is broken...

Here are some pics of what happened...Can anyone tell me what to do to fix this? Thanks a lot!!

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Post by paul_ »

Remove control plate from guitar

put fingers in control route and push the back of the jack through the hole

put cup back in so that jack passes through the hole in the middle, then screw lock-washer and nut onto jack

Tighten

It's not fucked at all, the nut has just come off and that's what holds the cup in place so that's come off too and the jack has slipped inside. The classic problem with these is for the jack-retaining strut thing inside the guitar to bend and become loose since that's how you wedge 'em in there in the first place, but yours looks solid. I try to use cables that don't have ultra tight-fitting jacks on teles so I don't yank the assembly apart over time pulling the lead out.

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Post by TieDye »

If you want to get rid of this kind of annoying telecaster issue, buy and install an electrosocket from www.stewmac.com. The stock crap gets thrown out, including the internal flat piece of steel that the jack goes through. You need to buy a switchcraft jack too. Then once you have the stock crap out, you screw the switchcraft jack into the new cup and there are two screws that hold it into the body. It works wonderfully. Here's the direct link. http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics ... Mount.html