Originally Posted by: flingerThe trem arm should be loose enough to fall away after you let go of it, however if the arm rattles like my licenced FR get some plumbers teflon tape and wrap the threads of the arm once and screw it back into the bridge. This will dampen the play in the arm. If some of the tape is showing just pull it off with tweesers. If its still to loose, wrap it twice ect.,ect.

NO MAN don't do that, I did the same extact thing in my dean (casue sound logic a semi soft material that fills in the space and it should be snuggy for the bar right?) well it's NOT, the only thing that happened was that the bar wasn't getting to the bottom on the hole and started to rattle with the natural vibraton of the instrument, a real pain in the ars, I had to clean it up with a screwdriver and now my bar still swings but it doesn't rattle.