How to tighten your ukulele's loose jack socket

[@jamiesimon2534]

Brilliant. I have now fixed my loose MISI pickup Jack thanks to this excellent video tutorial. Thank you.

[@WorldofUkes]

Oh great! I'm glad it was worth making.

[@joycefleming1422]

Useful to know..thanks Matt! 👍🏻🎶

[@kevinarnold8782]

Great Video Matt - had to do mine again today and this was a reminder of all I'd forgotten

[@jackiebluebeautytipsandjam20]

Ty so much for this video . My Ohana Koa wood uke had this problem. Great step by step instructions and I was able to fix it without taking it somewhere!!!

[@WorldofUkes]

Fantastic! I can imagine once you'd fixed it - the sense of pride almost made you pleased the problem had occurred in the first place!

[@judynpeterjones3307]

Different ways but all work fine! I put a small Allen key in the hole to screw it up to the body, then put the nut cover on with rubber lined pliers!

[@WorldofUkes]

Nice, small Allen key would be ideal - I'm always losing mine on the carpet though!

[@grantsmith8502]

Thanks for showing , just had my one done if I’d seen this could saved £15 , Think a locking washer between nut and washer would stop it loosening again cheers 😅

[@WorldofUkes]

It'll probably happen again... I do my own once every few years. Next time, chopsticks on standby!

[@dh2602]

are there any permanent solution

[@MariUSukulele]

interesting! always gave it to my luthier suspecting it would be quite tricky an affair … and it is!

[@jacquietouchwood]

Can I have my uke with chopsticks please! 🍜 So if the jack socket has gotten a little loose because it doubles as a strap button and the strap gets twisted sometimes, (that happens to me a lot actually) I can't just quickly fasten it by turning it by hand cos that could twist the electric wires inside? Is that correct? 😯

[@WorldofUkes]

No you can tighten it that way, I do with mine (every time I use it, just in case). It's only when it is spinning around and around that it's a problem.

[@jacquietouchwood]

@@WorldofUkes Ok, good. Thank you! Phew, that's what I hoped you'd say. I did return (exchanged I should say, though the one I kept isn't perfect either) a Victoria Tenor Soundwave not so long ago because it didn't work when plugged into an amplifier. It played like a dream otherwise. I could have maybe checked it out myself using this method?🥢Didn't buy it from you, obviously. I'm fairly certain it wouldn't have happened otherwise ☺️

[@dh2602]

Thank you so much for this excellent video but what a pain in the ass. I will never buy another instrument again that has the end jack and the strap pin as one.

[@WorldofUkes]

The problem is, the ones with a jack input off to one side - they're weaker and prone to splitting if you, say, stand on a jack lead. No perfect solutions sadly.

[@mueslimuncher1950]

I'm probably not the only person to say this, but insruments have an OUTPUT socket, not input. You don't play the amp throu a ukulele!

[@WorldofUkes]

@@mueslimuncher1950 A fine point and quite correct. But it's so common to be wrong that it now almost sounds wrong to be right.