Klarinet Archive - Posting 000264.txt from 2006/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Partitta for Mozart's B-day!
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:31:44 -0500

At 04:30 PM 1/28/2006 -0800, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>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.

Not much in the way of solvents in commercial cork grease. Just Vaseline,
mineral oil, paraffin, and scent. Add menthol and it becomes Chapstick.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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