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Re: how to fix a mouthpiece dent

Author: NBeaty
Date: 2010-12-12 15:27

Heat doesn't fix anything when material is missing (as in a break or a serious chip).

However, heat is used by many leading mouthpiece people for dents and dimples and it WORKS!

I used heat (a cigarette lighter) to fix a few dents on a 700 dollar mouthpiece. If you know what you're doing, this is the quickest and most effective way of fixing a dent with the least collateral damage (like sanding it out, requiring rail thickness adjustment or refacing afterwards).

A hair dryer is a terrible idea. There is absolutely no precision with a hair dryer and you would have to hold it on the mouthpiece for too long (affecting more than just the dent in question. Also, it does not work as well on a plastic mouthpiece. A plastic mouthpiece just wants to melt much sooner and much more easily than a hard rubber mouthpiece. It also doesn't "pop back into place" like a HR dent does.

I recently fixed an M15 that a friend of mine had managed to put three marks that appeared to be gouges across the side rail (on the facing). They appeared to be quite large and made the mouthpiece unplayable.

I spent roughly 10 seconds with a lighter and it was a good 90% back to normal. You can dent a rubber mouthpiece pretty deep, more than we would think anyway. The other 10% I fixed with a few passes over sandpaper. The bottom of the facing was a touch crooked, so in the process of reworking the facing a bit, I sanded out the slight chips in the rail.

If you're unsure of what to do or how to do it, send it to a refacer\mouthpiece maker.

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