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RE: Experts: Help, Please!

Author: ron b  Date:   2002-03-12 07:06 Hi, Joe I think it's great that you want to do your own maintenance. I would encourage anyone so inclined to at least do their own basic maintenance. No one loves your instrument like you do :] That's the good news. Now...(let 'em have it, Zeb!) -- I think Micro Pad and Cork Cement should be banned from the planet.... BLAM !!! Take to heart John's and Curt's comments. Local music stores in this area (central CA) haven't sold it for ages and I don't know of a shop in town that has any on site... for good reasons. It's messy, slow drying, doesn't 'set' pads well and has only fair to poor adhesive qualities. After it sets, it's difficult to rework. Yucky UNco-operative stuff :( All the local shops (and most sensible do-it-yourselfers) use stick shellac or French cement for padding clarinets and contact cement for key and tenon cork(s). NOTE: DO NOT use commercial (hardware store) contact cement cleaner/thinner for *thinning* contact cement; it's 'oily' and will kill the cement's adhesive properties. It's okay for cleanup *after* the contact cement has dried. I've found M.E.K. works okay but Ferree's and some other suppliers sell a contact cement thinner that may be better. I got some of Ferree's cork adhesive and thinner last week (coat, dry, stick, trim). I've used it only once so far (sax key cork) and it worked very well.

Topics	Author	Date
Experts: Help, Please!  new	Joe	2002-03-11 17:50
RE: Experts: Help, Please!  new	jbuter	2002-03-11 20:15
RE: Experts: Help, Please!  new	Curt	2002-03-12 05:56
RE: Experts: Help, Please!  new	ron b	2002-03-12 07:06
RE: Experts: Help, Please!  new	Joe	2002-03-12 13:52

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