Brass Nut Questions

[mccullpl]

I have an old POS Arbor star that I bought, because it looked just like my first electric (you guessed it, and Arbor star). Long story short it needed a new nut. Figured I'd go with a pre-slotted Tusq XL, to make it easy, but none of them had narrow enough string spacing....so, I went and dug the remnants of my first Arbor star, and popped the brass nut off of that. A little cleanup, and Elmer's glue, and I'm in business! Being brass, what is the best thing to lube the slots with?

Thanks!
Pat

[DalyTek]

Graphite.

[mccullpl]

I'll give it a shot. The slots are really shallow and wide, like the slots in a tune o matic saddle, so I'm not sure how well anything will stay.

Thanks!

[DalyTek]

If you can fit a thin mechanical pencil lead in the slots, just draw back and forth into each slot a few times.
If not, you can always crush the lead into a fine powder (or buy it in powder form) and pour it into the slots.
You don't need much, as graphite is very slippery.

[mccullpl]

Did the mechanical pencil trick, and worked like a charm.

Thanks!

[DalyTek]

Awesome, good to hear!
Enjoy!