Hi Bill,
If you think it's worth it, I'd be quite happy to get our workshop guys to take a look at the unit to see if it's repairable. One of the guys is a guitar player and a fan of yours so he'd do his very best. As no PM service e-mail me if you you like us to have a look.
Roger
Mike Robinson at Eastwood contacted Duesenberg about the broken trem and Duesenberg said they'd had several of the units fail. Apparently it was a bad batch that were made at the factory. I've been sent a replacement and the guitar is now with Gordon White at 'Single Coil' repairs to have the replacement unit fitted. I'm hoping it's no another one from the faulty batch...
I think Major Snagg's problem is a different one to the break that my unit had. The posts are fine on my Astroluxe and seem to be holding up ok.
I've had a Duesenberg trem fitted to my Musicvox Space Cadet and had one fitted to my other Musicvox guitar, (the latter for a while now,) with no problems. I've also got one fitted to my Tokai Firebird and a different style Duesenberg trem fitted to my D'Angelico NY-SS. On the whole, I've been very pleased with them.
I may fit the Duesenburg tremolo unit to my old Yamaha SF 500 and see how it works on that guitar. It's a really solidly built guitar and slightly less 'precious' to me than my Astro Cadet. A set of Ernie Ball Super Slinkys (009 - 042) might be a good option too.
I had a bit of trouble with the same Duesenburg tremolo unit (with a set of medium gauge '10' -'46' strings) on my beautiful white Eastwood Astro-Cadet guitar...the 'anchor posts' were lifting out slightly from the guitar body due to the strain of using the trem...so worrying in fact, that I took off the tremolo unit, and re-strung with a set of Ernie Ball Super Slinkies '9'-'42' and fitted stop tail-piece instead. The guitar plays like a dream now. I can use another guitar that has a modern style tremolo unit... so all was/is not lost.