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Replacement tuner recommendation needed

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Ken:
I have a 1976 BC Rich Bodine bass that came with elephant ear tuners that are really heavy.  The only lightweight replacements I could find were Schaller M4S.  They're on the bass, but they're terrible quality.  Anyone know of any other lightweight replacements for these?  They have the pins on them.  No screw holes.  I would rather stick with crappy tuners rather than do any modifications to a very rare bass.

Basvarken:
I can't think of any lightweight tuners with that exact footprint

But maybe the Gotoh GB528 has the two screws eactly in the same spot as the two pins?

https://g-gotoh.com/productList/res-o-lite-series/?lang=en

Ken:
Thanks, Rob.  I was actually looking at those exact tuners and wondering if there are pins that can be sort of pressed into those holes.  Assuming I'm reading all this correctly, the Gotohs have a 17mm spacing between the holes and the Schallers have 15mm.

 

Ken:
Probably too much of a project, but even if pins that are a half-width can be pressed into there, that's probably enough just to keep the tuners stable.

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