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bloke wrote: Mon Dec 19, 2022 4:11 pm
OK...So this FINALLY stopped the slide from moving (when blowing the friggin' crap out of this thing)...
...so yes: I guess it IS air that's causing it.
EVEN AFTER installing the "slide brake", the slide brake's rubber pad would just scoot across the nice smooth lacquered surface...
...so I found a new/old REALLY COARSE belt sander belt, cut a rectangle out of it, and contact-cemented it to the outside slide tube.
That FINALLY stopped the sliding-when-I-blow-the-crap-out-of-the-tuba thing.
I was going through ______ Symphony No. _ (which is rumored to be programmed - next year - with one of the freeway philharmonics with which I'm associated). I've played #_ and #_, but never #_ (other than a single movement), and having a crack at #_ is an exciting proposition.
(sorry...but - just like fb - fack chekkuz have censored my post as - since the '23 - '24 schedule hasn't been released - it may only be 97% true.)
Anyway...I was blowing through a loud-as-hell passage in mvt. _, and (sho-nuff) that damn slide was OUT a friggin' INCH and was crackin' the damn pitches in the mid-upper range.
JETSON !!! YOURbbbbbbbbb FIREDbbbbbb !!!!!!!
PLEASE, Mr. Spacely...It's the DAMN SLIDE !!!
So what you're saying is, you didn't need sandpaper to make that slide work so well due to superior alignment, yet needed sandpaper anyway to keep it in?
