Klarinet Archive - Posting 000258.txt from 2006/01

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Partitta for Mozart's B-day!
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:32:29 -0500

Tom Wood wrote:

> He said to stop doing that! Cork grease will
> destroy the glue that holds the tenon cork on
> the tenon........... Anyone else believe that?
> Any comments?

It's just as easy to debate about cork grease (and as tiring) as it is
to debate about oiling, but _nothing_ lasts forever.

Surely the bottom line is that you need a lubricant of some sort, and a
lubricant with less volatile solvent is probably gentler on contact
cement (which is rubber-based and soluble in many solvents).

I happen to like the way that lanolin (anhydrous) handles, which is a
pure fat paste without solvent. A Google search will locate other
solvent-free 'greases' as well, but common anhydrous lanolin from a
retail pharmacy will cost you less than those $1.49 tubes of cork grease
(or other specialty products) over the long run.

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