{"id":12,"date":"2015-01-10T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/?p=12"},"modified":"2017-11-11T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T13:13:49","slug":"fix-your-hercules-guitar-stand-for-about-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/fix-your-hercules-guitar-stand-for-about-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Your Hercules Guitar Stand for About $1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After years of use, the grip on my Hercules guitar stand<\/a> broke. (A link\u2014with a picture\u2014to a forum post on the matter by other owners is here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>I contacted Hercules about a replacement, and they said they don\u2019t sell parts. They advised me to buy a new stand, of course.<\/p>\n

Instead of spending upwards of $30 on a new stand\u00a0and placing yet one more thing (that\u2019s only 0.001% broken) in a landfill, I did some research.<\/p>\n

Using a pitch gauge, I found that an M5\u20140.8 \u00d7 20 mm screw will keep the neck of the stand in place.\u00a0Home Depot carries the screw for $1.05. The SKU<\/abbr>\u00a0is\u00a0887480028287 and the screw may be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A M5\u20140.8 \u00d7 20 mm screw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The trade-off for using this screw is the forfeited\u00a0ability to use the stand\u2019s one-handed adjustable feature. (To adjust the height, I will need to unscrew, re-position, and re-screw the stand\u2019s neck.) No matter, I never used the adjustable height feature.<\/p>\n

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After years of use, the grip on my Hercules guitar stand broke. (A link\u2014with a picture\u2014to a forum post on the matter by other owners is here.) I contacted Hercules about a replacement, and they said they don\u2019t sell parts. They advised me to buy a new stand, of course. Instead of spending upwards of… Continue reading Fix Your Hercules Guitar Stand for About $1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixing-things","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}