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Tone chimney repairs

Author: Tony F
Date: 2016-11-12 11:08

While chasing a fuzzy note on my B & H Imperial I eventually traced it to some gouges in the tone hole chimney, the one on the lower joint nearest the r/h pinky cluster. It looks as though sometime in the past somebody has used a hard tool to adjust the ring height and left a V-shaped groove across the top of the chimney.
The instrument is hard rubber, so I've used a small quantity of full-strength Araldite mixed with a quantity of hard rubber dust produced by sanding an old hard rubber mouthpiece (Woodwind K11 if anyone is interested). I'll leave it overnight and sand it to shape in the morning. This method seems to be working OK, but has anybody got a better method they'd like to share?

Tony F.

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