Ryanthelion

The peavey T15 super ferrite pickup has the bobbin glued into the shell (housing). The cover is also glued onto the shell so prying that off is a pain and the bottom of the bobbin where the magnets are is also glued to the base of the shell, so no hope in wiggling it free as the hardened glue fills the remainder of space. This was a pickup I acquired with the intention of rewinding it. Rewinding the bobbin is easy but on this type of pickup it is difficult to remove without damaging the shell which is brittle. The glue used is very hard, probably some type of urethane or epoxy. I tried heating with a hot air gun in hope of softening the glue but no luck. The other thing would be some type of solvent to soften the glue but that may possibly melt the shell, so I didn't risk that. I did eventually get it separated but the cover cracked and many pieces of the shell broke in the process. The shell I was able to rebuild but it was like a puzzle, then I color matched and painted the shell. I did not glue bobbin back into the shell afterwards just in case sometime in the distant future the pickup needs to be rewound again. Peavey obviously had no intention for these pickups to be rewound. This became a personal challenge that is why I persevered , but I will definitely not go through the trouble fixing another one of these pickups again. Hopefully my experience will help guide someone considering doing this process unless they have some magical way I have yet to figure out.