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James Brown said:
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I have a guitar with a Floyd Rose bridge and locking nut. I just changed its strings and went up a half gauge heavier.
Just changing strings requires two different Allen wrenches at nine different points, plus six thumb wheel adjustments as well as the six tuning pegs. And each of them effects all of the others, even with a “normal” string change. Add a change in string gauge, and now you need a Phillips head to adjust the “claw springs” that counter the strings’ tension; they have to be perfect for the bridge to stay level, which it will only be once everything else is perfectly balanced.*
It took me about an hour and a half over two days to get it right. The good news is that it will never go out of tune, at least not out of range of the fine-tuning thumb wheels that are integrated into the bridge.
That not an insignificant benefit - in fact having to tune my other guitars becomes irritating.
(Note to self; next time, CENTER all those little thumbwheels before tweaking anything else. (Slaps forehead)
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* and be sure to do one string at a time or the individual string blocks can fall out and if you don’t know which is which you have to start over and do full intonation adjustments.
 
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