Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 2000/04

From: mickey aka <mickey_______1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Gluing broken clarinets together
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:26:14 -0400

For plastic tenon repairs, I think the norm is that
ABS plastic glue they use on drain piping. Almost
welds the joint. On hard rubber it is super glue and
wood, super glue mixed with wood shavings. .hmmm I
wonder if this is how they came up with the Green line
concept??

--- Spiegelthal.Dave@-----.COM wrote:
>
>
> Patty Smith asked about instances of super-gluing
> broken tenons on clarinets. I
> have two personal examples to relate. The first is
> from when I was a kid and
> inherited my older brother's plastic Vito clarinet
> after he gave up playing. I
> dropped the clarinet and it broke in half (in the
> body, not the tenon actually).
> I was so afraid to tell my folks that I glued it
> back together with two-part
> epoxy, and much to my surprise, it held up for the
> next two years until I
> switched to bass clarinet. The second example is
> recent --- I purchased a
> broken-in-half (again in the body) hard-rubber
> Triomphe "A" clarinet, and glued
> it back together, this time with super-glue. The
> break was so clean that after I
> sanded the joint line, it disappeared almost
> completely. Granted, I'm extra
> careful not to put too much torque or bending on
> this clarinet, but I've been
> playing this clarinet in orchestra for half a year
> now, and so far, so good!
> Dave Spiegelthal
> Calverton, VA
>
>
>
>
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