AggieDan wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2026 11:14 am
Don't worry. That'll buff right out.
Solder the carriage bar back on and it really wouldn't be too bad.
That said... these have by far the worst linkage I've ever come across. Flimsy, rattly, a mess. I ended up using blue Loctite on some of the threads on the one I had to make it simply function without rattling itself apart. To put it in perspective, these are ~15-20 year old Chinese instruments.