Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2023-10-31 12:55
You repair people here, are you also locating hard-to-find leaks on clarinet bodies by this water immersion method, as can be seen here: https://www.earspasm.com/why-earspasm (scroll down to the heading "Bath time!")
Before seeing this myself, I would have assumed such as an absolute no-no (especially for wooden bodies - but can't tell from the above videos if it's used also for such ones), but it's obviously most effective as leak detection. Surely they immediately afterwards also dry everything out, thus avoiding any rust forming on springs and similar. Since air is continuously pumped into the bore, also no water would get in there but only on the outer surface.
When such an immersion is done just quickly (and there wouldn't be any reason to extended it, since leaks show up instantly), there probably isn't any risk for cracks even on wooden bodies - but I'm still curious hearing about how common this practice is among other repairers.
If this isn't your method, what's your way of searching for similar leaks?
Post Edited (2023-10-31 14:37)
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