Guitar Maintenance: How To Fix Loose Tuners | From the AG Archives

Normal playing as well as fluctuations in humidity can cause parts on your tuning machines to loosen up over time. Loose bushing washers can rattle when you play, and loose buttons can eventually fall off and be lost, making tuning impossible. Inspecting your tuning machines is not only an important part of regular maintenance, but it may just solve that mystery buzz or rattle you’ve been wondering about. The following procedure is best performed with the strings off, because it makes finding loose tuner problems more obvious.

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