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Re: Parts for old clarinets

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-10-07 16:25

I always put an old towel on the table and take out a screw over it. That way it won't bounce into oblivion when I inevitably drop one.
When the key is off, I put the screw back into the post, and the rod through the tube in the key, to avoid getting them mixed up.

I also use a magnetized screwdriver http://www.google.com/products?q=magnetized+precision+screwdriver&aq=f or one with a screw-holding mechanism. http://www.google.com/products?q=screw-holding+precision+screwdriver&aq=f

Older Buffet screws and rods were fitted by hand. Jimmy Yan once needed a replacement screw for a 30s Buffet, but when he tried the ones from my fatally cracked lamp, he said none of them would fit.

Every repair shop has drawers full of old screws, rods and keys, which they'll usually give away or sell for next to nothing.

In addition to Ferree's you might try:
http://www.musicmedic.com/
http://www.votawtool.com/zcom.asp?pg=products&grp=588&cat=tools
http://www.windcraft.co.uk/index.html
http://www.smallparts.com/

Finally, training courses for instrument repair include making rods and pivot screws from blank stock. Any good repair tech should be able to make a replacement pivot screw, or, more likely, shape an existing one from a junker to fit.

Ken Shaw

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