Klarinet Archive - Posting 000133.txt from 2003/08

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Pad glue
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:39:47 -0400

This message started out as a digression from the discussion of glueing in
tuning rings. If anybody on this list uses contact cement to put in pads
(especially if anybody's using contact cement to fill up pad cups that need
thicker pads!), 100 lashes with a reed cane. How I hate it when I start
cleaning up an old clarinet and find the pad cups full of contact cement.
That stuff makes the pads maddeningly difficult to gouge out manually. I
have to peel the pads apart to remove them. The last layers of cardboard
backing and fish skin remain stuck to glue that's often spread so thickly
and so efficiently into the angle between back and side around the inner
circumference of the pad cup that soaking the cup in acetone takes hours to
soften the glue enough to finish the job. Even then, digging the last of
the glue out makes a smelly mess. Do-it-yourselfers, please use French
cement, stick or flake shellac sold as pad glue or at least some other type
of low temperature hot-melt glue for pads! End digression.

Lelia Loban
E-mail: lelialoban@-----.net
Web site (original music scores as audio or print-out):
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/LeliaLoban

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