I'll try to make this quick because it is pretty late. I am still up because I have been working on uninstalling my truss rod. I tried to slip under the radar and PM'd j.Brown (btw thanks again!) and asked the orientation of LMI's U-Channel (Martin style) truss rod. I didn't let on that I had already glued the blasted thing in. I did a couple tests before installing it and when turned clockwise, it did what I though should happen and bowed back on the tape side. So that is the side I put down in the slot (no glue yet) and the put the strip (with polyurethane glue) down over it and clamped her down. After more research and even a call to LMI - I was informed the tape side should be up, and that it is in fact a double action rod.
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I went back and forth but then decided to pull it out if possible. I did a little prying before I remembered heat was the antiglue and so I hit with an iron for just a bit and it ended up coming out pretty easy with a little upward prying from the adjustment end.
I am nervous now though that 1) I could have left it as-is and 2) now I should possibly replace it for fear that any of my prying screwed it up. I checked it both ways and it seems to be ok, does anyone have a good reason I should or should not use it?
Whatever the final outcome, now there is one more thing I will not end up doing again (hopefully)...
Thanks all!
Christian
