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lamp oil (in an old valve oil bottle), narrow-slot screwdriver, (oh yeah: MOUTHPIECE), and one of these:

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I don't care for "attachments", and prefer for the Torx 6 to have it's own complete non-detachable handle.

A few short years ago, our local Ace had one to sell to me (I'm thinking I handed it off to Bill - along with the silver 186...??), but - even though their store is now 4X as large - no longer.

This one is from eBay (China), and was $5.XX (postage incl.)
I'm not *a brand-snob, and the tip seems to be made of decent steel.
Shipping estimate was a month, and it was received in a week.

That having been said, I mailed some repaired flutes, a re-padded clarinet, and two repaired tuba pistons to a school that is about 75 miles away in my own state. After two weeks it's still floating around - with the tracking only stating something like "in transit / arriving late". These are our first repairs for this particular school...' not very good optics. :smilie6: Thanks tons, gubnunt. I'm sure you've spent the $37 wisely.
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As I've posted quite a few times, I'm not a road tool-jock.

A few weeks ago, I had three nursing home quintet jobs - one after the other.

One of the two 4-paddle carriage brackets came un-soldered on my F tuba (probably due: after 40 years).

Between two of the jobs (and I managed to play the instrument with that one bracket loose by depressing the levers gingerly), I stopped by Harbor Freight, bought a mini-torch + their cheapest pliers, went three stores down (tobacco shop) and bought some Butane.

In the shade of a tree (at a nearby hotel parking lot) I soldered it back together (no flux, and no additional solder...and HAVE NOT "gone back over it" - because it looks "good"). It took about a minute. (Had it taken longer, that would have defined trouble or failure, yes?)...

...and - all the crap that you tool-jocks carry around:
I'd bet that 98.2263 % of you don't carry a torch, butane, solder, liquid flux, nor soft wire, etc... (' safe bet?)

bloke "Generally, I can fix stuff (some say I should do it for a living :bugeyes: ), and - if I don't have everything I need - I know where to round up stuff that will make do. Further, what do DEAD people do - if they croak right before they are supposed to play a gig...?? OPERATE on themselves, so they can come back to life so as to play the gig?"

There are TWO holes for mouthpieces (I have only figured out how to play on ONE at a time) in the Jakob Winter case.
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bloke wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 12:35 pm lamp oil (in an old valve oil bottle), narrow-slot screwdriver, (oh yeah: MOUTHPIECE), and one of these:

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I don't care for "attachments", and prefer for the Torx 6 to have it's own complete non-detachable handle.

A few short years ago, our local Ace had one to sell to me (I'm thinking I handed it off to Bill - along with the silver 186...??), but - even though their store is now 4X as large - no longer.

This one is from eBay (China), and was $5.XX (postage incl.)
I'm not *a brand-snob, and the tip seems to be made of decent steel.
Shipping estimate was a month, and it was received in a week.

That having been said, I mailed some repaired flutes, a re-padded clarinet, and two repaired tuba pistons to a school that is about 75 miles away in my own state. After two weeks it's still floating around - with the tracking only stating something like "in transit / arriving late". These are our first repairs for this particular school...' not very good optics. :smilie6: Thanks tons, gubnunt. I'm sure you've spent the $37 wisely.
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No torx driver made it to Texas. Chances are you still have it. 👍🏼
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Doc wrote: Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:45 am No torx driver made it to Texas. Chances are you still have it. 👍🏼
Maybe, it’s stuck up in the turn of the upper bow, which would explain the “world class sound”.
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bloke wrote: Wed Sep 14, 2022 4:59 pm
Doc wrote: Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:45 am No torx driver made it to Texas. Chances are you still have it. 👍🏼
Maybe, it’s stuck up in the turn of the upper bow, which would explain the “world class sound”.
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