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Re: Pros and Cons of Using Hot Glue to Repad a Clarinet

Author: bwilber
Date: 2006-08-20 13:24

What I think would be great is if the little pellets were in a stick form instead because I really like using a glue gun because a person isn't working with any type of fire.

What I have been doing is squirting a little hot glue into the cup and with the hot tip of the glue gun, run it around in the cup a little bit and quickly stick in my pad to make sure that it's going to stick. I have done some experiments to see if the pad is going to fall out and sometimes it has come out and it's because I just put in a little "plop" of glue and probably the cup was cold. I found that if I tried to get out a pad that didn't go in very well, that the pad was destroyed, before I could get it out, which tells me that the glue is working pretty good.

I have found that if I take the glue gun and hold it against the back of the pad for about 10 seconds that I can just scoop the pad back out again because the glue is hot again and pliable. I use goo gone to get any glue residue off of the cup. I know also that there are "hot" glues and "warm" glues. The last glue that I bought was "warm" and I think probably "hot" would be smarter as it would be less likely to get soft in hot situations.

Bonnie Wilber

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