Klarinet Archive - Posting 000427.txt from 1999/03

From: musictrader <syrinx@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] repair of old instruments
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 20:20:31 -0500

In fact, it is actually swaging, taken from the machinist trade (instrument
repair tech's have misused the terminology for many years now, where it is
considered acceptable)
At 05:30 AM 3/6/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I think the term is swedging. It is a procedure that lengthens the rod
>between the connecting posts. Can be done with the right tool: swedging
>pliers.
>
>Roy Johnson
>
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>> From: Edinger/Gilman <wde1@-----.com>
>> To: Klarinet list <klarinet@-----.org>
>> Subject: [kl] repair of old instruments
>> Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 4:46 PM
>>
>> Here's a question for you repair guys. I have an old Buffet that has
>> rather loose mechanisms, such as the rods between the posts, and it
>> seems to me there's some sort of procedure (swaling? something like
>> that?) and a special tool you use to do it that will tighten up the
>> action on worn mechanisms. Can someone explain this to me, and is it
>> something a fairly handy untrained person could do himself? Would
>> Ferree's sell the tool?
>>
>> Bill Edinger
>>
>>
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