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"emergency" pad repair

Author: gigaday
Date: 2010-05-03 12:43

I expect that I will get howls of disapproval for sharing this.

I was getting a nasty rattle in my tone and discovered on inspection that the pads on two of my RH side trill keys had split - about 1 year old.

First I experimented by wrapping ClingFilm around the offending pads but was not satisfied with the result.

I removed the respective keys, ran a tiny amount of Superglue through the hole in the bladder, prodded the pad into shape with the tip of the watchmaker's screwdriver I was using and waited for it to dry.

I reassembled and put a little black PVC electrical tape under the pad to give it a little resilience, a little squeeze to seat it. I was not happy with the result so I took the black tape off.

I then put some decorators masking tape under the pads instead, again a little squeeze to seat. This seemed a lot better but I discovered it is impossible to remove it from the pad. Took the keys off again and trimmed the masking tape circular so it looked OK. Reassembled.

Works pretty well and sounds much better than it did. No leaks, no rattle.

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