Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2003/03

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] cork grease and legere reeds
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:05:27 -0500

Does STP give you a really smooth twisting motion of the joints or do they
stick a little until you pass some threshold force? And whoever suggested
to you that STP works well as cork grease? Does it work better than that
stuff you buy in shoe stores? (Skunk oil? Beaver grease? can't
remember) I'm not challenging that, you understand. I buy chamois from
Pep Boys, cut it into swab-size pieces and tie on a shoe lace with a solder
filled screw at the other end.

8-)

Oliver

At 10:43 AM 3/3/03 -0800, you wrote:

> > An olefin (also called alkene) is any hydrocarbon with a double bond and
> > has the general formula of C(n)H(2n).
> > It could be petroleum based resulting from a simple distillation process
> > but most likely it is a product of many reaction intermediates after the
> > arrival of the original crude oil. In that sense it is likely synthetic
> > but not necessarily so.
> > Oliver
>
>Thank you, Ollie!
>The stuff reminds me a lot of glycerin~looks and feels
>like it. Maybe they are similar?
>Since it only takes like, a half-drop for each cork,
>and it's real easy to get a little more than that on there.
>A bottle of STP would last for several lifetimes,
>I think......I'm still not sure if I should be using
>it, though?
>Sue
>
>
>
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