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Re: Buffets and cutting corners

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2018-01-23 09:07

Heat the end of the lever (where the stuck broken pin is). It will "swell" and come out in a few seconds. You can even use a lighter. Use pliers or tweezers to grab the end and pull it out when it's starting to come out.

Although this is obviously done to save costs (not only of the part itself, but also no adjustment necessary) it's actually pretty solid. It can get a pretty hard knock if your clarinet falls.

It can be annoying to any person who had this break on their clarinet, but statistically it is pretty rare. In over a decade of seeing too many clarinet with these pins to count, I've only seen broken ones a few times and almost always a result of the clarinet falling.

I used to make new pins from metal but for a while now I use the method Chris P described in the other thread and no problems so far. Much faster and cheaper, though it does require having replacement pins.

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