Folkcraft® Machine Heads, Open Gear, Small Pearloid Button, Four Pack

Name: Folkcraft® Machine Heads, Open Gear, Small Pearloid Button, Four Pack
Brand: Folkcraft
SKU: 90523192
Price: 14.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Item Number 90523192

Regular price $14.00

Available for a limited time only, these tuning peg knobs are offered at a special reduced price. Good quality - not the very best, but perfectly functional - tuners. Made in the Netherlands, by one of the oldest machine-head makers around. You'll get four tuners - two lefts, two rights, along with eight screws. This is a great deal for open gear tuning head knobs, get them while you can.

Technical specifications: Each post is approximately one inch long, measured from the inside of the mounting plate. There are two string holes. One hole is 18/32" from the mounting plate, and the other hole is 25/32" from the mounting plate. The shaft diameter is .236", so a 1/4" hole is just right to use these dulcimer machine heads.

Machine heads, Open gear, Bone-colored button,4 pack

The package of machine heads include the necessary tiny mounting screws as well as the decorative chrome colored grommets. The grommets measure at about 5/16 inch in diameter so I used a letter 'O' drill bit to make the mounting holes. Instead of pounding them into position I used a 'C' Clamp and pressed them into the holes. The pilot holes for the screws that hold the machine heads in place were drilled with a #50 drill making them easy to screw into place using a small Phillips head screwdriver - i was concerned about stripping the slot for the screwdriver if the pilot hole was too small. As I recall, the description for the set of four mentions that 2 right and 2 left machines are included and such was the case thus allowing all four to be turned in the same rotational direction to adjust string tension no matter which side of the peg head they are mounted on. Very nice and smooth to use. So far they hold the tension accurately from day to day.