Lucas handed three keys to each of us and showed us how to change the cork.
We had to make those nice and shiny. Pad slicks, meant to move and float pads to the right leveling.
This is a feeler gauge, it has a washer material at the end. We slip those between the tone hole and the pad to see if it seals properly.
Really just a stick with a feeler material glued on, but highly useful.
The torch at my bench. Must remember to turn off the gas at the end of the day!
Padding. This is the new pad I put in. I took out the old pad, cleaned the pad cup, put a glob of hot stick glue on the pad, and put the pad in the pad cup. I had to clean up the sides of the pad since I put just a little bit too much glue. Finally after some heating and pushing the pad sealed perfectly.
We had another lathe project, a brass tube to put into the inner tubes of a trumpet to help take out dents. This is Alana using the mini lathe.
Must be absolutely perfect.
Drilling into the brass tube. The drill makes squeaky sounds when it gets full.
And now making the threads inside of the tube so a screw can be screwed in.
This is how my slide tube mandrel turned out. Really happy with the results, even if I scratched it a bit when trying to see if it would fit into Brandon's trumpet.
All smooth and nice.
Looking pretty good. The screw is just acting as a handle, nothing needs to be put on there like with the dentball holder.
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