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Re: Clarinets and Bleach

Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2009-01-30 11:48

I would also ask WHY she is using so much cork grease.
Is it that the timber is jamming and needs adjusting?
Or is it that it is one of the substandard types that just cakes up and makes the joints MORE difficult to assemble.

Clean all that muck off (with lighter fluid), and get Doctor Slick or Alisyn cork grease, and use VERY little.

BTW, I think it would be very difficult for even petroleum products to release a top quality contact cement such as Evostik, properly used. (and I don't think bleach would do it either). I tried soaking such a bond in lighter fluid,then oils for weeks without the glue releasing. But yes, Vaseline and certain other mterials used in crappy cork grease similar greases do damage both cork and certain types of contact glue.

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