Klarinet Archive - Posting 000595.txt from 2003/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mess (fwd)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:50:23 -0400

In fact, I didn't need to heat the screwdriver. Thanks again - it worked.
Roger

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From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:49:25 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: [kl] Mess
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Tony,
Thanks very much - that's something I know I can try.
Roger

n message <20030918.184055.94@-----.org writes:
> 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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