week 11

So this fell apart, but I just soldered it back together. Keep in mind I did some cleanup work after I took this picture.

Another picture of the solder work I did (this is the other tube, since it came off both sides).

Oh, now it looks even nicer. I burnished it more down with a magic dent eraser (ok, it's a piece of plastic cutting board, but it's still cool and works really well!)

Oh, look at the dent on top of the tube, next to the casings.

A dented in finger hook. I have to take it off to get rid of that dent, isn't that fun?

Oh, the twizzler. The mouth pipe is twisted  and the brace that attaches to it is bend sideways too. This mouth pipe needs to be replaced.

Take a good look at that ferrule.

Now, at the top of this spacegun you can see the ferrule in the last picture, the one that looks burned? Yes, that's it. I need to clean it up before I put it back together.

 This is the other side of the middle part of the mellophone

The bell alone.

The twisted mouth pipe.

Oh, a dent. I can take that out now that the horn is apart.

More dents that I then rubbed out.

 And the dent is gone! whoooooo...

Oh, more dents on the bell? Time to use some weird curved tools to reach in there and push them out a bit before I get to play with the magnetic dentballs.

A dent that was behind the casings. How in the world did that get there?

The twizzler from a nice angle.

Look what Greg found! It's a corned main tuning slide (I'm pretty sure) that matches the old mouth pipe perfectly! Too bad that it's still full of pitch after it was bent. I'm going to have so much fun getting that out.

Look how nicely that matches! I don't have to do anything but clean it out and fit it to the horn.

Gross pitch that was inside. I scraped off a bit from the inside and took the bur from the cutting with my solder scraper.

 

A lathe project. This is a bearing plate mount. I stick it into a lathe (or a bench motor), screw a bearing plate on there (the side of the thing that is now facing down) and use a cool tool to press on the bearing plate, making the lip wider so I can fit it securely in the french horn, to silence the horn.