Stolen from Phantom Regiment's equipment storage facility? It is very old. Looks like it has been in a flood, too.

An hour of long tones against drones with a tuner, and another hour playing the same etude in all 12 keys, all on the Holton 345.

I also installed 8 new felts to the pistons during a break.

Jhanks, Sam is one of my best buds. I love that cat. Here are my other two buddies, Ginger and Mary Ann…

It's ruined for this purpose by that time. It starts out like a thick, very sticky version of honey, is processed into something like a vaseline/applesauce consistency, and cannot be transmuted back intoits original form. It can be "fixed" for their purposes, but not for the purpose of making a ...

… it's hard to take parts ruined by tools and make them usable again.

We had several repair geniuses around the state who kept our music store's shop in business for many years. It got so bad that at one point I put a sign on the shop door that I had hand-lettered. It said:

WE FIX REPAIRS

No ...

The industrial stuff can be had in smaller volumes, although it's got a lower $/oz in the larger quantities.

When doubled with the lanolin you have a POUND of grease. Not what I would call a "smaller volume". That would last me for more than a decade!

And you chose well for your example. That is ...

Allied used to sell this mess called "Guppy Lube" but by the time I had come onto the repair scene (1995) i had become unavailable. Allied would sell you the anhydrous lanolin and a "recipe" to make your own.

I had a tub of the nasty stuff and this card, and decades later decided to give it a shot ...

Wrapping up this thread…

I will start a new one when I get back on this project.

I have decided to build out a new 5th valve section to graft to this 6th valve, netting me two options of a five-valved or a six-valved tuba, and will then build a "delete tube" (in the past I have called this a ...

I have decided.

I will buy the tubing, crooks and other parts needed to build a 5th circuit to solder to the currently-unused 6th, and will fit that to the horn separately at the end of the summer. Then I will have all three option available to me (as I outlined above): 4 pistons, 4+1, and 4+2 (or ...

I also do not want to have an open quart of motor oil in my shop for many years while I use it a few drops at a time, so I add 3-in-ONE oil to my lamp oil, if it ever needs to be thickened.

I have mineral oil but use it in my slide grease concoction.

Yes.

How id this question about adding a valve to my horn become a deep discussion about health and bankruptcies and such?

What about my question?

Thanks, folks.

I'll start a new thread and try to re-ask the question in a non-hey-look-a-squirrel manner. Sorry.

LAMP OIL

~~Low Odor~~

~~Odorless~~

THESE ARE NOT THE SAME PRODUCT. NOT BY A MILE. Low Odor stinks like hell. It can easily "PERFUME" your entire hourse if spilled. Odorless is… odorless; it has no petroleum smell.

There is also this unfortunate scented, citronella-type stuff, and my last quart ...

Short blokified version:

I am going to build a separate combined 5th/6th valve section (removable) so that the Holton has BOTH a 5th valve AND a 5th/6th valve. If I have to sell this tuba to pay for my mountain of medical bills, should I sell it as a 5- or 6-banger? Or for more money sould I ...

A few of you here have been folowing my on-again, off-again 6th valve project for this huge CC tuba.

Due to my love for the 6th valve that I added to my F tuba, and the way of thinking about its utility ($1 to bloke ) that caused me to want to add it in the first place, I have had one of those "Why ...

tadawson wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 3:08 pm Seems fine and responsive 5 mins ago . . .

Try to make a new post or to comment in an existing thread…

Everything is up and running, but nothing works.

???

I tried posting or replying in seveal forums and all were stopped with the invalid form message.

Also, take a look at the birthdays, today. LOTS and LOTS of 46-year-olds on TN, baby. It's like the Class of 1997 signed up en masse , all with ...

Oh, I thought you were talking about TN, but I understand now.

Why? Does it say something? I finally got logged back in and all it says is that the board is temporarily down and to try again in a few minutes.

No. The recorder did not get turned on. It was set and paused and the unpauser person forgot to unpause it.