Klarinet Archive - Posting 000542.txt from 2003/09

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mess
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:14:10 -0400

Many repairmen use a fine quality beeswax for both the register vent and the
thumb tube.

Heat works here as well.

Forest

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>
Subject: Re: [kl] Mess

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:49:56 +0100 (BST),
> roger.shilcock@-----.uk said:
>
> > I have had a stupid accident with my B flat instrument - a jammed
> > pullthrough. A wodge of cotton cloth is stuck under the speaker tube.
> > Has anyone any suggestions, please?
>
> Speaker tubes are usually held in with shellac. If you find a
> screwdriver or other cylindrical metal object slightly smaller than the
> speaker tube, you can heat it in a flame and then insert it into the
> speaker tube from the outside. Conduction of heat throuth the tube then
> melts the shellac, and you can usually extract the tube without much
> difficulty, either just using the friction between the screwdriver and
> the tube, or by making yourself a small hook.
>
> Of course, if you can get at the tube from the inside, you can push it
> out -- but perhaps in your case the cloth is in the way.
>
> Tony
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