...Cool man. Way to keep the peace as a moderator.
Granted maybe no one did that before, do I really care? Not one bit. Even if I did make a mistake, does that inherently mean that I'm an idiot? Wait, wouldn't making fun of people's questions be in violation of forum rules? Hmm... "Most knobs are installed without screws of any kind" well no **** buddy. I never said that you can't take a knob off without there being screws on it. Ever. Also, you ever think that maybe, JUST MAYBE, there's something that you dont know? I mean, it's clear to me that you're obviously god; but hey, there's a first time for everything. As for "taking the advice you are given instead of risking someone else's instrument that they might actually care about" I was not getting paid for this. This was a favor to a friend. If I did break or damage anything (which I didn't, and the suggested methods said that they had) I would have probably just bought him a new guitar. On that topic still, I wasn't even given any advice at all until you and a couple others mocked my question. With over 20 years of experience working on guitar's electronics, do you think that maybe there's a reason I asked? I've never seen anything like that before. It was really, really wierd; hence my asking.
For the record, do you try to belittle everyone who asks a question / tries to find a better solution than the first thing they think of? Because, I was under the impression that this forum was to help people learn, not for insecure people to try to convince others that they're worth life.
But since you're a moderator, you'll probably take this post down, ban me from the forum, or try in some frantic way to respond in an effort to make me look like an idiot. So fly at 'er buddy.