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Back again - need some repair help - Evette and Schaeffer

Author: escher
Date: 2013-11-13 15:55

Good day all...

A brief recap..

I was active in 2003 - and at the time I had purchased an Evette and Schaeffer in a sorry state - for about $63 dollars on Ebay...

I did some refurbs and didnt want to get in to a repad back then, so it went into storage.

In 2011 I got interested again and sent it out for a repad / recork / adjustment.

I was frustrated as I was having a heck of a time with high clarion / altissimo...

So - back into storage..

three weeks ago I got the bug again...

So I pulled it back out and found the issue.

On the upper joint, right side cluster of four keys... the second from the bottom was soldered back onto its tube at some point. I could never get the screw out to take a better look at it.

Well, I finally broke down and stripped the cluster down (again) to have a better look. There were two issues. First - the key was soldered with regular low temp solder, and it failed. Second, the low temp solder must have gotten into the tube and attached the tube to the screw.

So - the screw cannot be removed.

I have re-soldered the key to the tube - again using low temp solder for teh time being... but I cant get the screw out, even if I completely desolder the key.

So - and let me preface this a bit....

I dont have the extra funds to send this clarinet out and have repairs done - this is completely a hobby, so thats not an option.

I am a Mechanical Engineer and have worked on my horns for a long time - I know when I am in over my head and what I will and wont tackle... so no - I wont do any lathe work, or tonehole work... but I can do repadding and adjustments.

Preface out of the way - down to my question.

Do any of you kind folks have a donor horn that I could have this key and screw from?

My thought is this - I think I will have to 1) desolder the key from the tube again. 2) cut the tube/screw so that I can remove them 3) try and fit a complete new key/screw from a donor or 3a) solder my old key to a new tube and use the donor screw.

The horn is working as-is for now, albeit very ugly..

My E&S serial number is K1337... I would assume that a donor in the same SN vicinity would probably work..

I've put a lot of time into this horn over the last ten years and really would like to finally make her whole if possible.

You can read the start of my journey here:
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=127925&t=127855

Thanks in advance... and I'll post another thread regarding my *other* project that I recently acquired!!

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