Klarinet Archive - Posting 000591.txt from 1998/02

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Loose screws
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:09:15 -0500

Victor M. Wyman wrote:
>
> A good commercial product used by many manufacturers to keep screws in
> place is Loc Tite. I think fingernail polish will fall off or deteriorate.

If you use Lock-Tite _please_ use the right one. A mistake can be
expensive -
some of the Lock-Tite products available are permanent when used in an
application such as this. The right one states that you can dissassemble
it easily. The other formulation makes it well-nigh impossible to remove
a screw as small as the ones on a clarinet (and is known to cause studs
to
break off in cylinder heads! Not that _I've_ ever used the wrong
formulation
on a car engine 8^)
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