Floating Tremelo, "de-floated" a little bit?

[GibSG61]

Hello, I want to ask you guys a question. I'm not too sure if this is the right sub-forum, but if it isn't, I'll just let the mods move it. Well the problem is that when I was playing a show, I struck the ending chord with my usual force, but I lost my grip of the pick and struck the Low E string and the other strings pretty hard with my thumb and it completey detuned all of my strings down a step. I just decided to change it's strings, and now, everything SEEMS to be normal. The vintage synchronized trem bridge's action and intonation seems normal, and working fine. I eye-balled the action and it looks like it's factory setup, and all the strings stay in tune again, but the only thing is that, before I mistakenly struck the strings out of tune, my floating brigde seem to have float smoothly and nicely. But now, I looks like it has "de-floated" only a little bit. It's still a floating bridge but it came down a bit to the body. Now is this because of my mistake, or is it because of the still-stretching new strings? I have changed the strings before, and it didn't have this problem. And WHY did my old strings go out of tune when I struck it hard? Is it because I struck it too hard and it slipped a bit on the tuning head? Any suggestions or input will be most appreciated. Please answer back soon. Thank you.

[remember5]

I can't imagine you dislocating the bridge unless you also broke your finger. There are really 3 height adjustments and they're detailed on Fender's website, distance from string to fingerboard (action), distance from string to pickup, and distance from the back end of the bridgeplate to the body. Check out the .pdf file that details the setup. Setup is also detailed in the owners manual. Also the number of springs changes things and the gauge of the string changes things as well. If you change guages of strings you may need to reset the bridge height and the action and intonation.

Maybe one of the tremolo springs wasn't seated all the way and when you slammed the chord, it popped into position releasing some tension on the strings causing them to go flat. That would have been coincidental.

[GibSG61]

Thank you very much for your input. I've been using light guage strings since I bought it (.009), but it never happened like that before. So I'm guessing this is pretty harmless, right? How the tremelo springs popped and caused the strings to go flat. It's doing quite alright now, I think the tremelo is starting to loosen up a wee bit. The action and intonation seems okay also. Thanks again for your input. It was very much appreciated.