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RE: corks

Author: Willie
Date: 2000-09-01 04:44

I've redone the tenons of a few clarinets that were done with automotive gasket cork. I even tried it myself thinking the original "corker" did sloppy work causing premature failure. Didn't work for me either. Just about all automotive cork has a great deal of ground up rubber (old tires?) in it with many small pieces of cork all compressed into a sheet. It works great for at being sandwiched permanantly between two chunks of metal where there is no futhur movement, but on tenons where assembly and disassembly are constant, it stinks.

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