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Re: Safe way to clean a hard rubber clarinet body?

Author: Julian ibiza
Date: 2022-12-05 23:34

I imagine that hard rubbers tend to differ in composition and the best ways for cleaning them may differ acordingly . The RIDENOUR hard rubber stains brown very quickly in contact with water and this chemical reaction can't be doing the material any good seeing as It will come away on your cleaning cloth ...and that's not to mention the unsightly brown which could be described as milk chocolate ,although other comparisons for this color will likely come to mind .

I use Dunlop brand lemon oil ( very little of it on a soft cloth ).It loosens grime and light oxidation on the hard rubber and leaves it with a " good as new " shine and color. Most importantly it doesn't seem to react with the material in any way which seems to be quite an issue with hard rubbers .

If cleaning with water creates discoloration , then this can be removed with rubbing compound ......or you can just skip the water and reach straight for the rubbing compound in the first place and save yourself the extra work of removing all the staining from the water . Personally I wouldn't get water on my 925c bass for any reason .....it creates a horror story !

This is Ridenour's hard rubber I'm talking about which is probably most of what's out there today .

I believe some hard rubbers are fine in contact with water . It's probable got to do with the proportions of sulfur used in vulcanization or something .

Julian Griffiths
Tel. 34 696 798 853

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