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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-08-09 16:50
My Eb/Ab pad is leaking. I can't get it to the shop because it's so backed up with people wanting their instruments looked at before school starts. Normally I would just take it in and say "What the heck" but it's the middle of marching preseason, so I'm stuck with it for now. Does any body have a good quick fix idea to get me through to possibly mid september? Thanks!
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2000-08-09 17:50
Why don't you go to the shop 10 minutes before it opens tomorrow so that it will immediately get fixed? You know the early bird catches the worm!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-08-09 18:11
I did an emergency repair on a pad by using plastic cling wrap and a dab of superglue. I put the cling wrap over the hole, put a bit of the gel-type superglue on a bad pad (pad only!), let the pad back down, waited a bit, and then cut the excess cling wrap off. Worked for a very long time ...
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-08-09 21:43
Good suggestions, if you limit the repair request to that pad, you should get immediate service, [I would give it priority, just smile] . If not buy at least one of that pad, and learn how to do-it-yourself, 'taint hard! tho the Ab/Eb key-pad may be a "bugger" to reattach the spring if you remove the key!!. Mark's method sounds OK, I prob. would use a piece of scotch or masking tape stuck to the pad for a temp! Don
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-08-09 21:46
I agree with Kim. Be at the shop when they unlock the door so you can snag the repairman before he gets involved with the stacks of horns he with no doubt have this time of year. Won't hurt to bribe him with some coffee either.
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Author: Henning
Date: 2000-08-10 21:45
If the pad is not damaged (cuts or the like) and it is natural or synthetic leather you can try "ironing" it.
Take a pocket-knife, and see if you can access the pad (dunno if you can reach it, as I play german system ;-) ). Then heat up the knife with a lighter or candle (pay attention that the knife doesn't get black) and then iron the pad by pressing the hot knife flat against the pad and "iron" it by moving the knife a bit. This should reduce the Relief and the pad should close the hole again.
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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-08-13 18:55
Thanks for all of the advice, I couldn't get cellophane to work. Then I went to iron it, but it turned out that the glue residue made this impossible. So for now, I've got the key so it won't open (I used some cellophane instead of tape, it was quite a trick) and I've got some pads on order so I can fix it myself. Thanks again!
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