Sperzel locking tuners - HELP!

[olrocknroller]

I thought I'd try a set of these tuners, installed them, and started stringing up the guitar...all went well until I got to the G...it snipped it off as clean as if I'd used my side-cutters! Hmm, I thought, wonder what's with that, as I continued on to the B...snip! I checked the pins, and they're round-end-up, so quickly figured I was stymied.

Anybody had/solved this problem?

[panther]

I have one set of those, and either I did not get it, ( I went on line to get instructions from more than one source ) or they just aren't for me. I went back to conventional tuners.
Dan

[Dennisthe Menace]

I'm not sure that I understand the question/problem. I've got Sperzels on all of my Mo's except for my '63 and '65.
Those Sperzels are excellent. I installed my first set on my '88 back in '90, and then installed them on the rest...?

[vibramutant1965]

send them back ,they are defective

[olrocknroller]

Turns out they are fine... It was the strings that caused the problem, being a brand apparently known to be very brittle. I switched to my every-day working brand of strings, and all went well. Pics of the guitar are posted under my Jazzmaster build post. Thanks for the replies!