Broken Whammy Bar Inside Bridge of My Stratocaster

follow url Arghhh…any of you ever have this happen? I broke the whammy bar off and the threaded portion stayed deep inside the bridge on my Fender Strat – after spending close to 2-hours trying various methods to get it out, I finally broke down and bought a new bridge, whammy bar combination for just over $100 CDN.

go here Truth is I lived with it for almost 2-months, but not having my whammy bar was driving me a little nuts.

source So finally today I replaced the entire bridge, restrung and re-tuned the Strat and she is back to normal.

https://www.fandangotrading.com/1on3tkqw Seriously though – there has to be a way of getting the threaded portion out.

https://everitte.org/ckxc7re8 I tried a screw extractor tool for a local hardware store where you drill a pilot whole into the piece that is stuck, then place the heavy-threaded extractor into the pilot hole and theoretically it was supposed to remove the stuck piece.

https://boxfanexpo.com/i3wu6r6rs5 No such luck, all it did was further mess up the whole to the point it was unrepairable.

https://www.thoughtleaderlife.com/m6dqx08x1mt Oh well, there seems to be a fair number of others that have done the same thing, so at least I’m not alone!