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My Jagmaster has this type of pickup:




But I'd like to fit these covers:



How do you get the beasts to stay in? Could I just melt a load of wax into the cover and then jam the pickup in? On the description it says 'solder mounting required' what does this mean?

You get a high powered soldering gun and you solder the mounting bracket on the pickup to the casing.

Oh, I see! Is a 30w strong enough? or is more power needed?

I would probably say more power maybe, but someone might correct me. My old iron was only 30W, and my new one is 25W, and I'm not sure either were up to the task. Do you know a Plumber or a Mechanic?

you'd probably need a soldering gun. i found one in my grandpa's garage. perhaps you can do the same?

BTW a solding gun looks like a Dreadnaught class Starship.

by the way, my grandpa was an engineer for lockheed. it might help if you have one of those.

Yeah, if your Grandpa was a Dancer, you probably shouldn't bother looking.

Plastic robroes just fit snuggly on, so I wouldn't imagine these are a lot larger. You could always just use some tape (electrical tape or whatever, it won't matter you wont see it)

Jam it on with blu-tac, that's way easier than melting wax and shit.

GLUE! Epoxy the Mosrite way. Screw repairs

if you glue it, it won't work as shielding. if you solder it, like on PAFs like so:



it shields the pickup and also makes them a bit warmer sounding. normal solder is pretty strong I think just soldering it with a regular soldering iron would be fine.

normal solder will work, but you need a higher wattage iron to get the metal hot enough for the solder to bond.

On my Squier '51, I just pushed the pickup into the cover, and let it sit there. It was a fairly tight fit, and it's not as if there's any great force that's going to pull it off.

bubbles_horwitz wrote:normal solder will work, but you need a higher wattage iron to get the metal hot enough for the solder to bond.

oh, I see.

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i have a 30 watt radio shack iron that i normally use for all my internalz.


this iron in this youbube is my big ass 70W adjustable craftsman. i had it cranked to full power and it wouldn't touch the wilshire stock pickup cover solder job from the factory. i think they used volcano juice to bond it.

I seem to remember I had a bit of a nightmare trying to get the covers to come off whatever pickup they had been on. I think I eventually levered it with a screwdriver until the solder cracked.

DGNR8 wrote:GLUE! Epoxy the Mosrite way. Screw repairs

hahah. i took my 67 mosrite apart and noticed the glue/expoxy on the pickups. totally awesome.