Klarinet Archive - Posting 000268.txt from 2001/01

From: "Ed & Carol Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pad measurement
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:00:55 -0500

George,
Egnore the paper. The "skin diameter" is what you care about. Very few pad
makers have the decency to mark the size of their product.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Kidder" <gkidder@-----.org>
Subject: Re: [kl] Pad measurement

> Ed-
>
> I have been waiting to see if there were other answers, but yours was the
> only one. My problem is that
> no pad I have seen is marked with its diameter, although I should think
> they could be marked on the back with a great improvement in convenience.
> At present, given an unknown pad, how do you tell which size it is??
>
> If one had a large selection of pads, as a practicing repair tech would
> have, you could just choose one which fit the cup properly. But if you
are
> going to order a pad, you have to know what size to call it.
>
> For instance, I just measured a new pad; one of the larger ones. I get 14
> mm when measuring the back (where the paper is) and 15 mm at maximum
> diameter, close to the skin side. What is this pad called?
>
> George
>
> At 12:04 1/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >I simply make an inside diameter measurement of the pad cup. If it reads
> >10.5mm I use a 10.5mm pad in it.
> >Ed
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "George Kidder" <gkidder@-----.org>
> >To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:30 AM
> >Subject: [kl] Pad measurement
> >
> >
> >> A question for one of the techs out there: When you specify (say) a
10.5
> >> mm pad, is that measured at the maximum diameter, or at the smaller
> >> diameter which fits the cup? I won't prejudice the answer by saying
which
> >> way I guessed, other than that it seems to have been wrong. (Or there
was
> >> a picking error at Farree's.)
> >> -----------------------
> >> George Kidder
> >> MDIBL
> >> gkidder@-----.org
> >>
> >>
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