Bari octave Rod screw has come out!

MandyH

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Hi all I have struggled with my Bari once or twice today, for no obvious reason, then I've just spotted this :
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This is the screw which goes down a rod that joins all the octave pips together.

I have flicked off the needle spring at the bottom of the rod, aligned the hole in the rod with the hole in the bracket and screwed the screw down carefully as far as it will go, then put the spring back.

The Bari seems now to play fine. Was this the right thing to do, or do I need to go to the sax tech?
(Not sure why the photo has posted sideways)

Thanks
 
Don't panic. Not everything needs an expert. If it looks right and plays right it should be right. Stuff comes loose. With all that vibration when play it's a wonder they hold together at all. Don't over tighten it and be careful not to slip with the scewdriver and score the lacquer. Keep an eye on it and have a look round when you've finished playing or wnen you're cleaning. Sorted.
 
It might be saying "Well oil be beggared... she managed to put me together again..." :clapping:

Once I had an irritating intermittent fault (always the worst kind) when a couple of the LH pinky far-too-clever tituppy swivelly things would occasionally jam. The third time it happened in half an hour I noticed a tiny swivel rod had come undone and was jamming two touchpieces, but as I took a closer look - and the angle of the sax changed, and gravity did its stuff - it slid back in enough not to jam up... which is why I didn't see it on the first two occasions!

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse - I oiled every bearing surface on the instrument, pronto.

Incidentally I've been using chainsaw chain oil for some time now and it does the biz just fine (and I've always got some to hand).

No good for ceilidhs, Burns Night, or Highland dancing though - it has anti-fling characteristics, according to the tin.
 
Ooh! Oil, I will have to look into that.
Bari is a Yamaha YBS62 and only just over 1 year old (I think, but time flies, so who knows!)
Still, if it need oiling, it needs oiling, what am I looking for to buy some oil?
Thanks
 
Ooh! Oil, I will have to look into that.
Bari is a Yamaha YBS62 and only just over 1 year old (I think, but time flies, so who knows!)
Still, if it need oiling, it needs oiling, what am I looking for to buy some oil?
Thanks

Here's "a how to do it" guide to oiling saxophones in the words of yer man himself, with comments on the suitability (or otherwise!) and cost comparison of various oils. The oil I use (chainsaw oil - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL7n5mEmXJo ) isn't that far removed from his favourite, Castrol EP 80, which is why I started using it - plus I always have some to hand...

http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/HandyHints/oilaction.htm
 
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I use engine oil. 5w40. Very thin when cold and gets thicker as things warm up. EP oils are smelly

I've only used EP oils for gearboxes ans transmissions - yes, they do have a characteristic smell, but in the tiny quantities you'd use on a sax I guess it wouldn't be noticeable...

The first link I posted, when I was talking about chainsaw oil, is really worth looking at, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL7n5mEmXJo
 
This thread reminds me of a conversation between my engineer uncle and my engineer father. Anyway they were talking about my older cousin,( whose father also was an engineer) and my uncle was telling my father how he couldnt understand that when driving, my cousin would press the accelerator and change gear without any real idea about what was happening in a mechanical sense. Now this thread is discussing which oil to use on a spindle.
 
This thread reminds me of a conversation between my engineer uncle and my engineer father. Anyway they were talking about my older cousin,( whose father also was an engineer) and my uncle was telling my father how he couldnt understand that when driving, my cousin would press the accelerator and change gear without any real idea about what was happening in a mechanical sense. Now this thread is discussing which oil to use on a spindle.
I guess you didn't see the link either?
 
Marketing is a wonderful thing. Change the shape and size of the bottle and put a different label on it and charge what you like for the same stuff.
 
Paint with a picture of a yacht on the can is generally twice the price of paint without - if not more.

In the days of Woolworth's, their 'wet look' gloss over government surplus undercoat always lasted on my boat just as well as on neighbours' boats for a fraction of the price - and government surplus 'Red Hand' antifouling in five gallon drums for the same price as a gallon of the yotty stuff was good, too... it was good enough for the Navy, so I figured it was probably good enough for me...
 
So, I bought a litre of EP80 as recommended by Stephen Howard, for almost the same price as a few millilitres of key oil.
I have oiled my Bari, applying said oil a drop at a time on the tip of a sewing needle, then working the keys and wiping off the excess.

Everything looks fine. Time will tell!
 

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