Tips for installing covers

[Spence]

Fill it with wax. It will be fine. Just tape over the cover with masking tape where the blade comes through to stop any moulten wax seeping through. You can make a mounting plate from sheet plastic which is cheap and can be glued on to the bottom of your wooden cover. The wax will not come out of that in the event that the bass gets so hot that the wax reaches melting point. The wax will not wreck the coil either. That's nonsense and completely untrue.

Don't forget, you may need to take them apart again one day. The epoxy boys couldn't give a toss about that.

[jonson]

Some epoxy boy's do Bro but for my own benefit not the customers. I wrote a thread about casting a couple of years ago and started doing this back in the 80s and never had a pickup go bad on me. That is till a couple of years ago when one did but it was instant and came out of the mold dead and for the time and effort of flaming it to make it retreavable it was best to junk it and start again. I changed to a different process if it is a molded/cast or wooden cover. After all the bits are laid in place I now fill to within 4mm of the top with molten wax and then use a hot melt black potting compound to do the last bit. You do need a good quality glue gun for this and not a $10 job from the diy store but it is worth it. This stuff if you can track it down works a potting compound and an adhesive and holds the whole thing together and for those of us doing the cloning bit mimics the old gibson potting compound beautifully. Now it is retrievable as I can pick out the black and then get to the works but hopefully will never have to. Buy Potting Compounds Black potting & encapsulating adhesive Power Adhesives 7718-12-250-BKP-TP10-RS online from RS for next day delivery.

[David Schwab]

This stuff is really good too:

Black Epoxy | MG Chemicals

It's nylon filled, so it does not shrink at all when it cures.