Fender American Series Stratocaster Tremolo Arm Tension Springs & Tremolo Arm for Mexican Standard Strat

I misplaced the spring and didn't realize it untll I was playing the other day and it went from super-spinny to dead lock. I like to somewhat flex between the two, where I like it both loose but also will turn it once to get it less 'free' but still moveable. This was loose to 'it's not moving unless I break something'. I guess I hadn't played this guitar in a while, as I hadn't noticed...This solved that problem; easy drop in, spin it back up, feel where it's going to stiffen up a bit and call it good!

Didn't try on American Strat, but I'm sure it'll fit.This is what every Strat owner needs to put inside their whammy holes before screwing in the arm. It adds just the right tension to keep your wiggle stick where you left it.

i put it inside the tremelo arm of a kramer baretta special. it did what it says. try it out.

Works perfectly in my American Player series and Squire Affinity series strats. YMMV

I installed one on my modded ol' school Kramer Striker and it worked like a charm to cure the dreaded swinging vibrato arm. I do, however, think they're over priced for what they are but they perform their job.

The loose whammy bar on my Fender Strat was driving me insane. Popped one of these bad boys into the hole and screw the bar back in and it’s now perfect!!

If you have a screw in tremolo, buy this. I hate having the trem bar all the way tight or having it loose and swinging. This fixes all that. Gives you great tension and you can move it where you want and it stays! Also, NO NOISE. Gives you way more control over your vibrato - BUY THIS. ITS LIKE $6!!!

Drop in fit!!

I opened the packet and tried to fit one in my trem arm hole. It felt very rigid going in and I couldn't compress it at all to even start screwing the trem arm in. So I popped it out and tried compressing it with a pair of grips. It did compress, but it stayed compressed.Whatever material was used, it's not the correct spring steel. So the whole pack of 12 is unfit for purpose.From reading comments here, it seem I'm not the only one with this issue. Other people seem happy, so it's probably a bad batch. But it's still not good enough.I'd recommend buying these from a shop if possible, rather than online, so you can check if they're springy or not.

Delivered early and seems like genuine Fender parts. Happy with that.The problem is that they are not springs. They deform when put under pressure and don’t spring back. Consequently if you screw the tremolo arm in and then back it off a bit the arm goes back to being loose. The only fix is to take the arm back off and get the screw out (top tip: use a 0.75mm crochet hook) and put another one in.However it’s all too easy to crush the new spring, meaning you’re going to end up putting up with a loose arm (the very problem they are meant to solve) or using up all your springs. No wonder they come in packs of 12.

Having tried he usual "plumber's tape" based solution to a wobbly, under-tightened trem arm, I decided to give these a go.I gently placed the spring into my vintage strat's trem block, and found that with minimal force it immediately got stuck, and buried inside the threads of my trem block. There was no way to insert the trem arm, as the spring prevented it from reaching the threads (in retrospect, this was a good thing as otherwise the arm would have pushed the problematic spring further into the trem block).I think the issue is that the spring is not uniform enough and the other coils at the extreme ends of the spring protrude outwards and get stuck in the trem block threads. i.e. the spring is not perfectly cylindrical.I tried everything I could think of the remove the spring and it was quite stressful to say the least!In the end, after some calm reflection, I sprayed PTFE lubricant into the threads, gently tapped a 1.5mm HSS drill bit into the centre of the spring and rotated the spring backwards out of the threads by rotating the drill bit CCW, slowly using pliers.I would not recommend this product for more valuable instruments, or quite possibly at all for that matter!

These ittle springs are great. They mean you can place the tremolo arm in a position that you want to, without it either being over tight or floppy. Before you order theses however you have to check that the spring will not just fall through the hole where the tremolo arm screws into. Use a cocktail stick to check that the spring will not fall through. The hole will be about an inch or so deep. If the cocktail stick doesn’t stop then the spring will not work. If you need to remove the arm to put your guitar into a case, put a little sellotape over the hole to stop the spring falling out.

Not sure if my MIM Roland ready 2002 stratocaster has been modified, but these springs passed straight through the trem arm thread and through into the spring cavity and out via the rear cover hole! Thus they didn't work at all - no fault of the springs themselves.Does any one else know if the tremolo arm 5mm thread is drilled all the way through on their strats or should it be a blind hole?