At the risk of giving @bloke a bigger head.... I have to admit he seems to be right yet again...
Last night I noticed the rotors were getting sluggish. Popped out the first one cleaned, reassembled, oiled etc. Was going to do the second but tried a generous amount of lamp oil down the leadpipe instead... Well a few times back and forth through the valve section and the rotors are just as smooth and fast as after the horn was chem cleaned last year.... and the brown nastiness that came out with the dumped oil was impressive.
Then it turns out that the mineral oil I grabbed from the medicine cabinet is pretty much the same thickness as my valve oil thinned lanolin.
You know... usually only my wife gets to be right this often.
Valve Oil Preferences?
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Re: Valve Oil Preferences?
As amateur as they come...I know just enough to be dangerous.
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Re: Valve Oil Preferences?
I'm not smart. 
I'm just old enough to have stumbled across stuff and noticed it.
That's "the science" of the mouthpieces I offer for sale as well.
It's also how I dispense with jacked up tubas and sousaphone's fairly quickly...ie. "Hey, I don't have to take all that crap apart just to fix this little part here."
I'm just old enough to have stumbled across stuff and noticed it.
That's "the science" of the mouthpieces I offer for sale as well.
It's also how I dispense with jacked up tubas and sousaphone's fairly quickly...ie. "Hey, I don't have to take all that crap apart just to fix this little part here."