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Re: using a light to find leaks

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2014-05-17 00:10

One of the many advantages of using leather pads on soprano clarinets as I do, is that the leak light becomes a perfectly useful device for finding leaks. With the traditional bladder (skin) pads, as Chris P pointed out, the leak light is not very effective and feeler gauges or (better yet, as Steven suggests) thin pieces of feeler material must be used.

Still, with some of the pads on any clarinet, part of the circumference is blocked from view by adjacent mechanism, so even with opaque pads the leak light is not a 100% solution. So, start with the 'suck test' and the 'blow test' and if you sense a leak from either/both of these, go to the leak light or feelers.

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