Klarinet Archive - Posting 000146.txt from 2011/06

From: DGross1226@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Keeping screws in place
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:11:37 -0400

In a message dated 6/18/2011 9:00:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
klarinet-request@-----.com writes:

> There's something called Lok-Tight, <sp?> now, to keep screws from
> working
> out, but it wasn't available,

Jim,

When I was working summers in college at a machine shop at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, we routinely used "Loctite" on any
screws/bolts/threaded anythings we didn't want to loosen. I started there in the summer of
1957. You gotta be older than dirt! ;)

Don Gross

P.s. Just wait until you lose a pivot screw out of a vintage Leblanc
paperclip contrabass clarinet. You either cannibalize from another instrument or
have replacement screws made by a skilled repair person. Can't buy 'em off
the shelf anymore.
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