Author: Zebedee
Date: 2014-09-17 19:05
Guys, to clean a leather pad use Lighter Fuel (Zippo fluid style) on kitchen paper and / or cotton buds, remember that it may be the 'tonehole' which has the muck stuck to it, just as much as may be the pad which is dirty.
I would not recommend using a soap to clean a leather pad unless you can guarantee cleaning it all off - which brings me back to the Lighter Fuel.
(And for those who drink Coffee in McDonalds... Do NOT smoke while working with Lighter Fuel, it's flammable ! and work in a well ventilated area).
One method I have found works with cheap chinese pads is to deliberately wet them with cooled boiled water (i.e. sterile), don't soak them, just get them wet, as if condensation had been dribbling on to the pad via the tone hole, and then place some kitchen towel between the pad and the tonehole while it dries out. The kitchen towel appears to draw out some of the sticky 'stuff' which is left over on the pad from the processes the pad goes through at the manufacturers. There is often a colour you can see on the Kitchen towel after a couple of hours.
Cork pads do work well but don't skimp on the cost of the cork as they need to be setup perfectly flat and must not have any defects (knots) in the cork itself, as that may be an opportunity for a leak.
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