Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

[arpthark]

I have some original old white ones that I can replace this with, but I thought it was interesting. Spoiler alert: it is really noisy.

[MiBrassFS]

And here we said the tuba isn’t a percussion instrument!

[arpthark]

And here we said the tuba isn’t a percussion instrument!

Definitely some parts slapping against each other here!

Also, the bumpers have the consistency of sidewalk chalk.

[bloke]

Would that be nitty or gritty?

[arpthark]

I gotta say, after tightening up the white ones a little bit, they are pretty much silent. This tuba is an institutional horn that is likely 45+ years old. Props to Miraphone.

[bloke]

I gotta say, after tightening up the white ones a little bit, they are pretty much silent. This tuba is an institutional horn that is likely 45+ years old. Props to Miraphone.

Yeah, I never replace those unless I see a crack in the threaded part, and the last thing I'm going to do is replace that excellent system with Minibal links.

There were some gray ones for a while that seemed as though they didn't last as long as the white ones. I asked Christian about that, he didn't seem to know about the gray ones or recall them, but sent me a complimentary handful of white ones with the stuff that I had ordered from them.

[arpthark]

I gotta say, after tightening up the white ones a little bit, they are pretty much silent. This tuba is an institutional horn that is likely 45+ years old. Props to Miraphone.

Yeah, I never replace those unless I see a crack in the threaded part, and the last thing I'm going to do is replace that excellent system with Minibal links.

There were some gray ones for a while that seemed as though they didn't last as long as the white ones. I asked Christian about that, he didn't seem to know about the gray ones or recall them, but sent me a complimentary handful of white ones with the stuff that I had ordered from them.

I have some of those. The thread diameter is different/smaller, and they were pulled off a tuba that got converted to Dubro. Half of them are cracked.

[bloke]

I gotta say, after tightening up the white ones a little bit, they are pretty much silent. This tuba is an institutional horn that is likely 45+ years old. Props to Miraphone.

Yeah, I never replace those unless I see a crack in the threaded part, and the last thing I'm going to do is replace that excellent system with Minibal links.

There were some gray ones for a while that seemed as though they didn't last as long as the white ones. I asked Christian about that, he didn't seem to know about the gray ones or recall them, but sent me a complimentary handful of white ones with the stuff that I had ordered from them.

I have some of those. The thread diameter is different/smaller, and they were pulled off a tuba that got converted to Dubro. Half of them are cracked.

I know what you're talking about. There were both gray and black plastic versions of basically Minibal links, but there were ALSO some gray versions of DVS links.