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How do you remove a humbuckers pickup cover, as my soldering iron wont melt whatever type of super solder they used when the cover was put on?

you cant.


i tried doing this with the Epiphone humbuckers that came with my wilshire. there were some very funny videos of me attempting to do this on the internet before i took them all down because i was drunk / swearing in 90% of them

robroe wrote:you cant.


i tried doing this with the Epiphone humbuckers that came with my wilshire. there were some very funny videos of me attempting to do this on the internet before i took them all down because i was drunk / swearing in 90% of them

I gave up after about an hour, however the fact that someone else tried and failed makes me feel a bit better. I thought I was doing something wrong... fuck epiphone and their indestructible solder.

Joy-killing industrial solder FTL.

Those videos were almost as frustrating to watch as what Rob had to have been feeling. It seemed like the Bucker covers would have glowed red before letting loose.

i cut the solder with a dremel to remove some squire covers

robroe wrote:you cant.

You can. I did mine, It just took a very long time, and I think I had to break the solder rather than melt it.

as you can see there are posters that are more industrious (less drunk) than robroe

More stoned, is probably the answer. That pickup cover became all consuming, and devoured hours of concentration. It paid off, though, I achieved something that day.

Anyone tried one of these?

i used a 140watt craftman gun on my epiphone pickups.....

not sure what that weller model is rated at

NickS wrote:Anyone tried one of these?

I have, actually. Bit overkill for guitar electronics but a necessity when dealing with epiphone evidently.

I just cut a hacksaw blade into a little tool and sawed through it. It's lead and tin, so it cuts fast.

I use one of those gun soldering irons. Good stuff.

chisa wrote:i cut the solder with a dremel to remove some squire covers

This!

You can also use a razor blade and a lot of force; dremel is by far the easiest though.

robroe wrote:i used a 140watt craftman gun on my epiphone pickups.....

not sure what that weller model is rated at

That's only 100W so if your 140W gun didn't do it I guess the Weller wouldn't.

Cut it with a thin rotary sanding disc for dremel.

Ok, so after reading all these posts I tried again and succeeded, however the insides of the pickup are in bits I expected the pole pieces and the wire bobbins (or whatever you call them) to be attached to the back plate but there not they’ve just been left to rattle around inside the cover. No wonder they always sounded a bit duff.


so all this has been a waste of time once again ...FUCK epiphone

Poor man's gibson. Did you use a dremel or melted the solder off?

Asher wrote:Poor man's gibson.

Is it much easier to take the covers off a Gibson humbucker? I suppose that's worth paying over a grand for.

Asher wrote:Did you use a dremel or melted the solder off?