SkunkWorks
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I received a set of Gotoh Vintage Locking Kluson style tuners to put on my '90 Standard. I'm having an odd issue with them. The seller has offered to refund me but I'm hoping it doesn't have to come come to that.
I installed them and went to string up. When I was stretching my strings I noticed the low E and A strings were detuning an abnormal amount and I couldn't get them up to pitch in a stable way. I watched the post while I was stretching the strings and I could see that the post was turning when I yanked on the string to stretch it... basically unwinding. It was just the post turning backwards, not the tuning key. At first I though it was just taking up slack in the locking mechanism and would eventually stabilize but I would get stuck in a never ending loop of tuning, stretching, tuning, stretching. I wanted to see how long I could pull on the string and have the post unwind and it seems to be endless... I actually ended up breaking the string. I put a coin in the top of the post and tightened the locking mechanism down as hard as I felt comfortable doing to make sure there was no slack in there but it made no difference... considering the way these tuners work, I shouldn't really need to do that anyway and from my description you can see that that isn't the issue anyway... it's not "locking slack."
I've done a search and I know many here own these and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? I found a user on another forum who had more than one set of these and was experiencing this exact same thing... he said it eventually went away after a few days and hasn't done it since. Here's the link. Exact same thing and, like him, it's pretty much on the low E and A... the higher the string, the less it seems to be an issue.
Trouble with Gotoh Kluson style locking tuners in McCarty - The Forums @ Birds And Moons.com

I installed them and went to string up. When I was stretching my strings I noticed the low E and A strings were detuning an abnormal amount and I couldn't get them up to pitch in a stable way. I watched the post while I was stretching the strings and I could see that the post was turning when I yanked on the string to stretch it... basically unwinding. It was just the post turning backwards, not the tuning key. At first I though it was just taking up slack in the locking mechanism and would eventually stabilize but I would get stuck in a never ending loop of tuning, stretching, tuning, stretching. I wanted to see how long I could pull on the string and have the post unwind and it seems to be endless... I actually ended up breaking the string. I put a coin in the top of the post and tightened the locking mechanism down as hard as I felt comfortable doing to make sure there was no slack in there but it made no difference... considering the way these tuners work, I shouldn't really need to do that anyway and from my description you can see that that isn't the issue anyway... it's not "locking slack."
I've done a search and I know many here own these and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? I found a user on another forum who had more than one set of these and was experiencing this exact same thing... he said it eventually went away after a few days and hasn't done it since. Here's the link. Exact same thing and, like him, it's pretty much on the low E and A... the higher the string, the less it seems to be an issue.
Trouble with Gotoh Kluson style locking tuners in McCarty - The Forums @ Birds And Moons.com
