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Martin Turner
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Right chaps I have a bit of a dilema on my hands. Ive gone and fitted my
truss rod in upside down and I need to get the thing out and refit
correctly. The brass block at the heel end of the neck is epoxied into the
slot. Any ideas on undoing an epoxy joint would be appreciated. I have a
stock of spare truss rods so destroying the upside doen rod to extratc it
isnt an issue.

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Martin, epoxy lets go with heat. And it really doesn't take much. According to their spec team, West Systems creaps at 180? and let's go completely very soon after that. I'd consider a heat gun on low.


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Thanks Paul. Will try a bit of heat and if that doesnt work Ill just have to
cut a bit of wood out.

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If you have a soldering iron or woodburning pen, you can apply heat right where you want it. That should do it.

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I have had very good luck removing inlays installed with super glue
or epoxy by heating the surface with a clothes iron until the fill turns
gooey, maybe 2-3 min, and prying the thin out with an exacto blade.   
The soldering iron will work too but takes a bit longer to reach the
right temp. The clothes iron will give you more even heat over the
whole surface. Good luck and work slow, I'm sure you can salvage
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A little more gentle way, I heard about was using a flood light. Never done it though.

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Thanks for the replies guys.
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Heat the brass block with a 40 watt solder iron until the epoxy softens. That should loosen it up enough to work it out.
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Okay I got the heat gun on to the brass anchor block and hey presto after
2 minutes the epoxy went all crystally white. Got a pallette knife down
each side of the block and it came out.

Thanks again for the helpful suggestions

Martin
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Your welcome! Please come again!!

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