Klarinet Archive - Posting 000286.txt from 2006/01

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Corks and pads (was Partitta).
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:22:18 -0500

From: Oliver Seely

<<<My cork glue of choice during the past several years has been
epoxy......>>>

I know that professional repair people hate it when instruments come
into their shops with done-at-home repairs involving epoxy glues. There
is a tendency when pads or corks come off to just grab the epoxy and put
it back on. Since epoxy cements are so widely used now around the home,
it is intuitive to assume that this will be a good, long-term fix for
almost any problem. However, when the instrument goes to a competent
repairer for a proper solution to a problem, it is very difficult if not
almost impossible to remove the residue of epoxy in order to make a
proper repair.

From previous discussions of this topic, it seems that the controversy
was between using cork grease as opposed to a petroleum-based lubricant
such as Vaseline. When shellac was the adhesive of choice for corks,
petroleum lubricants tended to cause the shellac to deteriorate over
time. However, I think that most people now use contact cement for
tenon corks, and I don't think this is affected as much by petroleum
lubricants.

Ed Lacy
University of Evansville

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