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Chris Herring - Posted - 05/02/2024: 11:34:20
A friend has asked me to fix his banjo, one of the cheap tuners is broken.
Any source for a single tuner??
If not any recommendations for decent full set of replacements using the same style?
mike gregory - Posted - 05/02/2024: 11:44:34
Take off the other three gnobs, and drill and file dice to fit.
Dice are cheaper than tuners.
I drilled THESE so that the number of the string matches the end of the die it's on.
Edited by - mike gregory on 05/02/2024 11:47:26
Barnacle Joe - Posted - 05/02/2024: 17:11:10
eBay, Stew-mac, Reverb
Owen - Posted - 05/02/2024: 17:36:43
If it's a cheap tuner, I assume it's a cheap banjo??
... a mis-matched set (?) of tuners [or even knobs?] might add a bit of cachet??
Dan Gellert - Posted - 05/02/2024: 17:47:01
solder a penny to the shaft.
davidppp - Posted - 05/02/2024: 19:18:44
Dan Erlewine, lead guitar for the Prime Movers (that also featured Iggy Pop) and repair guru for decades for Stewart-MacDonald, fixed up a guitar for Horma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, etc.), adding one gold-colored tuner -- to match Kaukonen's gold tooth. Mismatched is definite cachet.
Banner Blue - Posted - 05/02/2024: 20:31:59
That is an inexpensive guitar tuner found on bizillions of cheap guitars made 1970-to the present. Any guitar shop with a technician probably has a box full of these. Be sure to get the correct right or left tuner.
Otherwise replace with a set of guitar tuners purchased new from any number of vendors. Buy a guitar set (six) and keep two as spares. If you get new tuners with the 10mm bushing/nut you will have to enlarge the holes in the banjo.
mikehalloran - Posted - 05/03/2024: 07:58:32
The footprint is easy to match but that tuner hasn't been made in years. I can get sets from Saga but you should be able to find something similar on Amazon.
If you find an exact match in someone's parts box, don't worry about R/L. Remove the gear and the shaft can be removed and flipped over.
