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Re: Oiling Keys

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-07-27 09:41

Gear oil is fine in my opinion. 80 weight. But we have to be careful as repairmen. Here's why. The oil might cause some of the keys to be sluggish so we have to add spring tension or actually use a heavier spring. Surely not all of the keys will need adjustments. Remember what I said above about Buffet having high spots on the rods to the point that the keys won't move at all. This is on NEW horns. Garbage, they don't care. It's horrible. So repairmen have to fix this first of course. Then the heavy oils will work well. To save time I often you a lathe to get a nice even thickness and measure it with calipers or a micrometer. Most cases I use a micrometer. New horns! What a waste. Also the keys are often dry of oil. So much for Quality Control. I don't blame repairmen charging $500 to $1000 to get the new Buffets working right. Undercutting holes, replacing pads, because the horn don't hold a seal. It's just wrong. So here is the problem. Heavy gear oil will freeze these problematic keys, so take the rod off and smooth off these high points. The clarient should work much better.

But for sure your keys won't wear out. It can get gummy. So go synthetic. That doesn't gum up, one of the reasons why we don't have to change the oil in cars every 6000 like we did in the 1970's and earlier. Some oils say 25,000 miles between oil changes. I have a fast race car so I change the oil around 10,000. Like my car that uses a weird oil 0-4o I use the same for the rods on the clarinet.

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Post Edited (2018-07-27 14:47)

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