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Re: cloudiness to nickel plated keys

Author: BobD
Date: 2014-04-19 16:14

Clarinet needle springs originally were sewing needles....and you can still fashion a working spring from them. The sharp tip was(is) is often received in a notch in the keywork that is too small to accomodate an unsharpened tip. And finally, there is method to the non-uniform diameter of the spring which results in a different key action than if the diameter was constant.
There's more than one kind of "tarnish" on nickel plated keywork. One kind is a frost that is due to poor plating procedure. Another is more of a cloudier type that I remove with furniture lemon oil. The copper color that appears when some nickel plating is gone is not brass....it's the copper flash plate that is common practice.

Bob Draznik

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