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  • Worst case scenario you'll break strings...which you'll be doing enough of anyway so have at it!. In case you want to test/prove/verify that first, just severely de-tune your guitar (unwind all the strings a LOT so there's hardly any tension), then gently move the whammy until it stops in either direction. Chances are it's already going to be at the bottom/tight/high sounding end since the whammy springs inside the body (probably under a plastic cover plate in the rear of the guitar body) will have pulled it as far as it can go. Pull it back the other way and you're only stretching the springs mentioned above...which is what springs are designed to do. No worries...only damage you can do is *possibly* breaking a string sometimes, or possibly scratching the body by slamming the whammy bar in to the paint finish. You will not break the tremolo unit.

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