Toggle switches: is this weird?

[Ovibos]

I've found I have this weird thing about 3-way toggles - something makes me think that the middle position creates less stress on it, so I find myself flipping them to the middle when I put the guitar down.

Is this nonsense? Weird? True, but pointless?

 

[RickP]

I haven’t really thought about it. I don’t move it when putting it into the case, so I voted that. I’m on the bridge pickup most often, so that’s probably where it is normally. But if the last song was a neck pickup number, there it shall be until next use!

 

[veinbuster]

The toggle doesn’t care. It’s life will depend more on how vigorously and how often you smash it back and forth than how it is stored.

 

[Going Modal]

I have always defaulted to putting my guitar (any/all of them) back in its case with toggle in the neck position, volume off, and tone up. I don't know why. I'm trying to be less anal about these little things.

 

[vchizzle]

Makes sense from a physics standpoint. Will it make the toggle last longer? Ehhh, not sure about that. I tend to agree with @veinbuster

 

[alantig]

I tend to mostly agree w/what @veinbuster said, but... I did recently have to work on my DGT's toggle. It had developed some static, and the bridge pup position was starting to go intermittent. I don't case this one, so the static wasn't a huge surprise. The intermittent function, though, was a bit troubling, especially because the neck position was fine. I can only surmise that leaving it in that position all the time had pushed the tine out a little bit over time and created the problem. A little gentle bending work, and it's good as new.

And did I learn my lesson? I'll bet you can guess what position the toggle is in now. Or at least I think it's in that position.

And for the record, I pay no attention to what position the toggle is in when I put my guitars up, cased or not. The DGT is the only PRS that has developed that issue (at least so far).

 

[bodia]

That switch moves??? Mine are always back.....\m/

 

[Alnus Rubra]

For someone who apparently has OCD, according to Mrs AR, I’m surprisingly relaxed about the position of my toggles!

Now about the switches on the guitars!

 

[Johnny Rigs]

My brain says that use is what wears out parts. Always setting the toggle back to a certain position no matter where it is when you stop playing = more use. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[WA Paul]

Bridge all the time. I used to keep it in the middle years ago, but then it’s sticking up higher in the case.

 

[László]

Depends on which side of the guitar the toggle's on - if it's the traditional PRS shape with toggle near the knobs, in the bridge position.

If it's a 594 or SC, with the toggle on the other side of the guitar, the guitar gets cased with the toggle in the neck position.

Why? I have no idea. At some point (early '70s?) I started doing it that way when I played Gibson, and it stuck. I'm a creature of habit, no matter the cause.