Allen key bolt has fallen in on a brand new pickup!

[P-Ride]

Hey, I have a new humbucker by another manufacturer, that has allen key bolts.

I was curious to see what kind of allen key bolts were used, as I might change them for another colour.

I checked on Google and found posts suggesting these bolts freely unscrew and rescrew back in.

I unscrewed one and it came out, with a little wax too.

When I went to screw it back in, it basically fell through, so whatever it seemed to be biting into before no longer seems to be there.

The allen key bolt's head is now 1mm lower than the others and it freely spins, so won't come back out.

Is this normal?

Although there is wax in there, don't they usually use have something more substantial - like the pickup's top - to bite into, rather than just relying on wax?

What should I do.. is this faulty? Or have I done something I'm not meant to?

Thanks

[Dave Sloven]

Sorry to say this, but that sounds like the pickup is rubbish.  This shouldn't happen because when you have screws in a pickup they go through the baseplate

It is possible that someone has just put screws in place of slugs in a regular baseplate and you 'unscrewed' the one that was in the place of a slug and it was basically the wax that it was biting into, but that's not a double row of adjustable pole screws.  I'll post a photo of my Warpigs and some other BKP so that you can see the difference.

Cold Sweat (single row of screws):



Warpig (double row of screws):