Adjusting height of pole pieces

[fett]

I like the tapping better. Can you lower the pup all the way down to wood? If it bottoms out, you have a solid base. I guess. This is a neat thread.

[toejam]

Just use a piece of wooden dowel and a light hammer and tap them down.

That's a good idea. I was thinking about maybe suggesting to try to tap them down, but I'd never heard of anyone doing that and wasn't sure if it would work.

[ADR]

Wood dowel would be better than anything metal. You could chip off some fragments using hard tool,or slip off no less.I see some rust be careful or use a small amount of vaseline on a Q-tip before moving them.

[Cygnus X1]

Not sure about alnico, but one thing for sure...good luck trying to file a magnet. It's really hard material, with carbides dispersed in it. It would more than likely wear grooves in the file first, and if it did manage to grab the edge, it would chip off. Same danger when striking it. Use something soft, like wood.

I have metallurgy training, handy in the steel mill.

[straycat]

A wooden dowel works fine just use a light brass/plastic hammer use the brass side to tap the dowel.Do this lightly and you should be fine to hard and you will have to remove the pickup and push it back up.I have done this quite a bit.

[no-one]

A wooden dowel works fine just use a light brass/plastic hammer use the brass side to tap the dowel.Do this lightly and you should be fine to hard and you will have to remove the pickup and push it back up.I have done this quite a bit.

I tried it this way and it worked out fine.
Thanks to all of you for your help!