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RE: Experts: Help, Please!

Author: jbuter
Date: 2002-03-11 20:15

Joe,
Is your pad and cork cement that brownish/reddish stuff from Micro? If so, it is shellac thinned with denatured alcohol. You need to put it into the pad cup and then put the pad into the cup. Don't use too much or it will "ooze" out all over the place and make a big mess. On the other hand, you want enough in the cup so that there are not any "voids" in the pad cup between the pad and metal cup surface. It does take a while to set up after you've leveled your pads. I'd give it a good 24 hrs to set up enough to begin playing again. You can speed up the process by applying heat to the cup to "boil" out the alcohol. Be careful not to get the cup too hot or the shellac will, once again, "ooze" and make a big mess. Messes can be cleaned with denatured alcohol.

When using it on cork you will need to give it time to dry. I've never used it on cork because I can get a mental image of all this liquid shellac all over the clarinet, pants, floor and everything else. Use a good contact cement instead. Your life will be much easier for it.

John

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