Very helpful animation, mmmguitar ! I’ve tagged this thread for reference. 🙏 VibratoBridge I noticed that there's no battery LED on the PCB. I see only two small bare contacts where the LED would be supposed to be. I don’t have this replacement part in my records, but perhaps the amazing and talente...

Yeah, @Yames! This is great news!!

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the issue seems to be that the bushing, itself, is a bit loose. Gotcha—you may know that the hex bushing has two parts: the top part where the arm inserts and a small threaded part that screws on at the bottom. If you look at the backside of your Fly, you’ll see a hole cut out that allows you to lo...

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The bottom part of the pre-refined bushing is a threaded part the screws onto the larger part; make sure it’s tight on the larger part of the bushing, maybe? You’d have to turn it.

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Hey igor , Marc, and everyone reading this: I’ve pinged Ken Parker on this issue and asked him to write something in Ken’s Corner . I’ll be speaking with him this Friday and I’ll mention this issue again if he hasn’t responded by then. 👍🏻 I know that the NiteFly bridge bushings are glued in, so, if ...

Physically, if the angle between the trem and the perpendicular plate where the three-ridge spring plate screws into, is 90 degrees, and the trem’s pivoting point has not moved, then regardless of spring’s health or how the guitar is tuned, the three-ridge plate should always touch the step-stop wh...

Posting on behalf of @TheGrail: a DIY guide for Fly vibrato arms:

Parker Hex Whammy Bar DIY Guide

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Welcome to the Fly Clone Project, a site dedicated to preserving information about the Parker Fly and other Parker Guitars. For more info on the Fly Clone Project, click here ; we are a research effort of the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab at WPI. Start Here Nearly everything you need to know about ...

It kinda depends on the string gauge you’re using and the angle of the spring, but you definitely don’t get the same range as, for example, on a Steinberger (in my experience).

This guide may be helpful. Let us know!

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Hi rsdio ; I moved this thread to the Fly "Tech Talk" section as we might get better insights from others here than in the General Info section. Ned Steinberger has worked with our lab on a few projects related to his current work and we discussed the Trans Trem at length. You may know thi...

Hey all, I just discovered this forum and am VERY excited to be a part of it. Hi Bammbamm , welcome! Glad you’re here! Yes, jb63 ’s advice is right on; if for whatever reason you’re missing that set screw, I believe we have the correct replacement screw linked from the Anatomy of a Fly page. Vibrat...

Hi everyone, I shared this information with some friends a short while ago, so I thought it might be helpful to share here as well: https://youtu.be/IKhi0BsFlB0 This post is intended to give an overview of how the Fly vibrato system works and provide one approach to setting it up; this a complement ...

Reposting a helpful guide articulated wonderfully by billy for an uncommon but troublesome issue: billy's parker fly leaning post repair instructions.pdf As with any instrument, there are issues an owner may experience. Some issues that Parker Fly owners may experience are unique to the fly. This me...

Hey everyone, In case anyone has similar interests in doing this, I got around to blocking the bridge of two of my Flys: bridgeblock.jpg It's an easy swap for the spring; just looses the wheel, pop the spring, and put this in. Here are the dimensions of the wood block: wooden-bridge-block.jpg And, i...