Did my first patch job

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Amconk
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Did my first patch job

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Had some rot on the F-attachment on my project horn, when I cleaned it up it left some pinholes that leaked air. I decided to try my hand at cutting a patch and soldering it on. Not too bad... I’d do a few things different next time but it turned out looking okay. Ugly but functional. Just need to buff it up now. Valve tubing seems air tight now.
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Cheers!

Michael
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I applaud you for even trying to do it yourself, let alone succeeding. Good job!
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are still missing! :D
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Looks great ! Well done !

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Great job! Now you can enjoy playing that instrument again.

It seems like patching is a lost art these days. Everyone just buys the replacement part and installs it.

When I was a kid, there was a repairman near Reading, PA who did a great job of patching. He would design many of his patches so that they looked like guards that were made at the factory. For example, if he patched a hole in a trombone tuning slide, he would construct a nickel guard that wrapped around the entire tuning slide and was absolutely symmetrical. His work was something to behold.
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I saw a euphonium in a community band with little square patches on it. Turns out it was screwed to the wall at a TGI Friday kind of place as wall art. My buddy looked at it, found the valves still worked, so swapped the manager a junk alto for it. The little patches covered the screw holes!
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Whoever originally mounted that perfectly functional euphonium to the wall in a restaurant should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Now wait....there might not be any laws concerning that. Shame.

Great story Kingfan!
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Well the metal under the patch was so thin that it collapsed when I messed with it. So here’s Plan B. Ignore the burnt lacquer on the ferrules, I’ll clean that up later.
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-Modified Schiller 7B clone
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Amconk wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:50 pm Well the metal under the patch was so thin that it collapsed when I messed with it. So here’s Plan B. Ignore the burnt lacquer on the ferrules, I’ll clean that up later.
If at first you don't succeed ...!

Persevere. ;)
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First round of buffing. (Takes forever when you use a dremel. One of these days I’m gonna get a buffing wheel for my bench grinder...)

Getting better!
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-Holton TR-140 “monster” valve
-Modified Schiller 7B clone
-King 4B with custom bell
-Jin Bao Alto
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Looks pretty good to me!

(This is reason #2 that I do not buff).

I did buy a buffing wheel for my bench grinder, but that grinder is still sitting on the ground rather than on the bench. That's a good excuse for me to not bother buffing right now.

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Andy
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