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Re: How do you solve water problem?

Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-03-09 00:44

I have found a way that seems to help, at least for me. I always looked in the bore to find the offending stream coming from the thumb tube. And (with the perspective of looking down the bore) it always traveled counterclockwise to the right, going to the C#G# and EbAb holes. I observed also that the thumb tube is threaded on my older Buffet clarinets (don't know about other Big 4 brands or new Buffets) and that a cluster of water forms on the lower right quadrant of the tube. Water is very clingy to surfaces and will stick to the threaded area more because there is more texture there. It never clings to the left side where there is only 2 thread lines.
I ordered some Buffet Thumb Bushes item WBU1025 from <www.windcraft.co.uk> and hoped to remove the threads and replace my thumb tubes. Luckily, they had no threads to begin with!

I just changed them and now the stream goes to the bottom more often than not. I still DO get the occasional water in the holes, but not nearly as much as before.
Since the new thumb tubes from windcraft are not threaded, I assume that the new Buffet's are also not threaded- does anyone know for sure???

Post Edited (2008-03-09 12:10)

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