Removing Dupont strap button?

Gouch

I am trying to install a Baggs pickup system into a Dupont MCC-100. The new endpin jack will replace the factory-installed strap button in the tailblock.

The current strap button doesn’t seem to be affixed with a screw, so maybe it’s a threaded type (threads bite into the drilled tailblock).

Has anyone removed this type of strap button? Was it glued in?

Tia!

DragonPL

I removed mine just fine, to install the https://www.djangobooks.com/Item/dupont-bigtone.

No issues. Comes right off with a hex ranch.

To install the new endpin jack, and tighten it up properly, I did have to do this, with a stick, and tighten the bolts through the sound hole before putting it back in place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbfgqb1pBnM

Gouch

Update, I shined a very bright headlamp into to the (exterior) strap button’s hole and there’s a tiny phillips-head screw. I missed it before because it’s very small and slightly stripped/furry. And thanks DragonPL, I will be using the dowel method to get the new jack in.

Buco

Which Baggs pickup are you putting in? Is it hifi pickup by any chance?

geese_com

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/115126#Comment_115126

LR Baggs Dual Source. The guitar was supposed to come with it already installed but Dupont did not install it so I am having to to do it aftermarket.

Gouch

Update 2: Since the (obviously) phillips head was stripped, I used a hand screw extractor, and was able to unscrew the unit. No glue used. I could have used nylon jawed pliers. Ref pic if anybody someday cares: