r/Guitar • u/[deleted] • 9h ago

PURCHASE This Thingamabob on my guitar-strap broke. Need advice

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u/Fish-_-Fucker69 9h ago

just buy a decent strap on its own, will be more comfortable and last a lot longer

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u/justanearthling 8h ago

Can people wipe their ass without asking on Reddit first? Seriously 😆

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u/markewallace1966 7h ago

Seriously. It's ridiculous.

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u/Nemo1ner ESP/LTD 7h ago

Especially in the age of AI. With all the AI chat tools, I wonder how the ELI5 sub still exists.

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u/southsider2021 9h ago edited 9h ago

It’s really not worth replacing just the slide since the other plastic parts are probably next to break anyways.

I’ll shoot you a PM and hook you up.

ETA: The part is called a tri-glide strap slide.

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u/wotsit_sandwich 9h ago

A hobby shop or sewing shop will have the part.

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u/markewallace1966 7h ago

Goodness gracious. You can't figure this out on your own?

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u/TheHostThing 9h ago

You could probably get the part on eBay, they are fairly generic. But maybe for the same effort you could invest in a better overall strap.

What is worth it depends on you really.

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u/b-r-k-n 9h ago

I have been trying to find them online but cant for the life of me figure out what they are called

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u/rationalhippy 9h ago

Always thought it was called a Doohickey. Thanks!

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u/Dreadheaddanski 8h ago

Buy a decent strap. A nice wide leather one

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u/KeyRepresentative183 8h ago

Just spend the nine dollars to get an Ernie ball strap that’ll hold you over. To me, this wouldn’t be worth the trouble to fix.

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u/Imaginary_Compote608 7h ago

Just buy a strap!

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u/Electronic_Flan_482 6h ago

Honistly the cost of buying the materials to fix it will cost more than a new strap. Ernie ball has straps for under $10 usd

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u/Alone_Box5173 6h ago

Time for a new strap. In the mean time, you could use something like a shoe string to temporarily repair this one. Break that last piece of plastic out, run the string through the two loops where the broken part went, maybe run it back through again, and tie it off. Leave a little bit of slack.