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dstpt
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 Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:40 am Post subject: Olds Recording parts |
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Another project horn (if it does not sell soon):
Olds Recording, 1966
What would be the best source for a replacement 2nd slide crook and replacement knuckle from the "lower leg" (of the leadpipe segment) entering the 3rd valve casing? (What are other words used to describe the "lower leg" part of a horn, anyway?) |
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Halflip
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 9:19 am Post subject: Re: Olds Recording parts |
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| dstpt wrote: | | What would be the best source for a replacement 2nd slide crook and replacement knuckle from the "lower leg" (of the leadpipe segment) entering the 3rd valve casing? (What are other words used to describe the "lower leg" part of a horn, anyway?) |
I don't know the answer to your last question (I've always called it "receiver tube for the lower leg of the main tuning slide"), but when you speak of needing a replacement knuckle, I hope your don't mean the little curved piece of tubing that is brazed or silver-soldered directly onto the valve casing itself. To repair those correctly (without using an ugly patch) is very difficult because of the high heat involved.
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dstpt
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:02 am Post subject: Re: Olds Recording parts |
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| Halflip wrote: | | I don't know the answer to your last question (I've always called it "receiver tube for the lower leg of the main tuning slide"), but when you speak of needing a replacement knuckle, I hope your don't mean the little curved piece of tubing that is brazed or silver-soldered directly onto the valve casing itself. To repair those correctly (without using an ugly patch) is very difficult because of the high heat involved. |
Ah, that's right. That knuckle is part of the entire valve casing when assembled and would be silver-soldered, so removing it would require high heat and involve a lot of work unsoldering and resoldering other parts & braces and such. I know good brass techs can remove the 3rd valve and get inside with certain dent-ball tools soldered to rods and planish and burnish from the outside to restore it, but I was thinking it might just be easier to replace, which I know now is not the route to go. As for the term I was forgetting, I remember seeing "lower outer TS (tuning slide) tube."
Then we have other terms to learn: nib, knurled, and flange, in addition to various kinds of braces. |
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Halflip
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:16 am Post subject: Re: Olds Recording parts |
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| dstpt wrote: | | Then we have other terms to learn: nib, knurled, and flange, in addition to various kinds of braces. |
. . . not to mention ferrule and baluster!
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yourbrass
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Crooks and slide tubing for Olds are still available, but someone has to sort out what works. Olds was very efficient in their manufacture.
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