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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 2008/04
From: David Lurie <klingsor@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Oil query
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:24:53 -0400
Hi Herb
He's not talking about oiling the wood, only the mechanism of the key rods.
BTW, as for bread, since I am diabetic, I find=20
even one small slice is enough to send my blood=20
glucose levels sky high, So I avoid most bread, rice and potatoes.
David
At 01:11 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>At the IDRS session in Muncie, a couple of years ago,
>Linda Strommen of Indiana U gave a superb two day (a
>couple of hours each day) session on oboe reeds. Part
>of the session included a video feed live from John
>Symer's workshop in New Jersey. He said the best oil
>bar none for oiling key rods in wind instruments was
>gear oil, yes, the kind you put in differentials &
>trannys of our horseless carriages. I asked him
>through the open mike at the session if you could
>also use automatic tranny fluid. He said you could but
>it wasn't as thick as gear oil & therefore wouldn't
>last quite as long. I have been using Dexron II ATF
>ever since I got back from Muncie. Works like a dream,
>plus it is a maroon color so it shows up very nicely.
>You can see exactly how much is going onto the rods.
>Great also for oiling gougers as well as their blades.
>A quart of this stuff will no doubt last a lifetime.
>Certainly more economical than the stuff sold in few
>ounce bottles at music shops. I keep a stash on my
>reed table in a Caltrate pill bottle. About once a
>year, I fill my General oil drop dispenser. I've been
>using ATF at the rate of 2 to 3 times a year on the
>oboe, or each time I clean pads/tone holes & on my Dan
>Ross gouger after each use, which is about once a
>week. My 2=A2 FWIW
>
>By the way Ron Fox, a chemist & superb oboist from the
>San Diego area says the tranny fluid is fine. I even
>think he uses it.
>
>Any thoughts, Mike Benthin, David C. & Harold?
>
>http://www.generaltools.com/Products/Precision-Oiler__589.aspx
>
>
>
>Best,
>
>john
>
>--- David Crispin / Crispin's Creations
><crispinscreations@-----.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm not familiar with a green oil. To the best of my
> > knowledge, the favored
> > oil for woodwind keys is Nye clock oil, a synthetic
> > concoction. Loyalty to
> > this brand is so fierce among its users that I'm in
> > the process of adopting
> > it as a product. I'd be rolling it out in the next
> > few days if it weren't
> > for the fact that the syringes I bought as
> > applicators came to me without
> > needles on them.
> >
> > David Crispin
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "HAROLD" <harold@-----.br>
> > To: <doublereed@-----.org>
> > Cc: <doublereeds@-----.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:30 AM
> > Subject: [DR-L] Oil query
> >
> >
> > > Dear Lists
> > > Thanks for all your feedback.Despite all my
> > complaints in the past about
> > > not enough music being discussed herein, I too am
> > becoming a
> > > gadget-product inquirer.Oh well ,we are not any
> > better than our
> > > equipment,Baqroque oboist(a top one) Steve Hammer
> > once told me.
> > > Today~s query--purchased a green substance which
> > looks like it came from
> > > Mars from Oboeworks in NYC .It is special oil for
> > the oboe.Any experience
> > > with this one--feedback,feedback plse
> > >
> > > Rgds,
> > >
> > > harold emert
> > > rio-brazil
> > >
> > > PS--One more query about the old country(USA)
> > ---where does one find low
> > > fat food in fastfood dives--whenever I requested
> > anything light on my
> > > recent voyage to NJoisey and NYork was told by the
> > server that he or she
> > > could cut the product in half.
> > >
> > >
> >
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