a couple of issues on my asat z3 saddle lock bridge

[gvitale]

hi to everybody,

I was cleaning my guitar today (a 2002 Asat Z3) and I noticed a couple of things that I did not liked at all.

1) allen screw:
it seems that the cilindrical, white small piece of rubber which presses the saddles has detached from the allen screw.
that is: I've unsrcewed the allen screw and the saddles remained thighten.
I've managed to put then everything at its own place, restrung, and now the guitar plays wonderfully as before (no buzz or strange sounds).
Still, I'm quite concerned about that and I'd like to have some of your precious advices.

2) saddle screw:
I noticed the head D saddle screw is ruined. how to replace it?

I will be out for a week, so I'm not really in a hurry.
However, I prefer to write the post right after having noticed the problem not to forget the details.

Thanks for your kind attention,
Guido

[Craig]

hi to everybody,

I was cleaning my guitar today (a 2002 Asat Z3) and I noticed a couple of things that I did not liked at all.

1) allen screw:
it seems that the cilindrical, white small piece of rubber which presses the saddles has detached from the allen screw.
that is: I've unsrcewed the allen screw and the saddles remained thighten.
I've managed to put then everything at its own place, restrung, and now the guitar plays wonderfully as before (no buzz or strange sounds).
Still, I'm quite concerned about that and I'd like to have some of your precious advices.

2) saddle screw:
I noticed the head D saddle screw is ruined. how to replace it?

I will be out for a week, so I'm not really in a hurry.
However, I prefer to write the post right after having noticed the problem not to forget the details.

Thanks for your kind attention,
Guido

The white nylon bushing is separate from the allen screw. Nothing there is broken, see this photo showing the set of six screws and bushings which the G&L
On-Line store sells.


Which saddle screw is ruined? There are two small allen head screws used for adjusting saddle height and one phillips head screw used for adjusting intonation.
Please post a photo showing the damaged screw. My recommendation is to take the screw you want to replace to a hardware store and see if they have the correct
replacement. Be aware, that your 2002 Z-3 uses US Standard sized thread pitch screws and not metric sized ones. The G&L On-Line store does not offer either of
those bridge screws for sale. You also might check with a local G&L dealer or distributor to see if they can get replacements for you.

Hope this helps.

[gvitale]

Hi Craig,

thanks for your super-fast reply.
I'm glad there's no problem within the allen screw.

regarding the saddle screw, the one with the ruined head is the one for the intonation of the D string (nothing special about it, the head is just heavily consumed as happens usually to any screw: I guess it will need to be substituted before doing next intonation setup).
I must admit I was believing the phillips screw above was kinda 'special', I'm glad it is not.
however, living beetween France and Italy is not so good if you want US-sized screws and G&L dealers.
I'll try to see with my luthier.

Thanks a lot,
Guido