Tech/maintenance Low C# foot cork on 1926 TrueTone alto?

[bobstad]

Yikes. that's a long time.
Do you have a caliper to measure the thickness of the plastic piece?

My gut feeling is that it won't matter too much, you have the "cork" in there mostly to avoid the clacking noise when thefoot hits the bow and, to some degree to regulate the opening angle and reduce bounce. In theory, you can use a thin piece of felt like what you would use for coasters and if it is too thin you double it up. You have to cut the contours, but any razor blade or cuticle scissors will do for that. No need to get carried away and if you had a plastic piece in there, it would be the wrong thing anyway.

The idea of building up layers of something simple and tough, where the cork normally is, might work? Likely, I'll come across something by chance which can be adapted..

I'm pretty handy.

 

[PigSquealer]

Long thread for a .064 x .150 x .250 piece of cork and .5mm drop of glue.

 

[Woodpad]

Long thread for a .064 x .150 x .250 piece of cork and .5mm drop of glue.

The concept of simple solutions for simple problems is very far from the conceived present economic reality.

 

[PigSquealer]

The concept of simple solutions for simple problems is very far from the conceived present economic reality.

There’s a reason Duct tape is so popular.

 

[Woodpad]

There’s a reason Duct tape is so popular.

Hoarding? As the present oil price will increase the price of Duct tape.

 

[bobstad]

Hoarding? As the present oil price will increase the price of Duct tape.

I wonder what the original price of a forever stamp was? Can they be exchanged for cash?

Better than gold, for an investment? Cannabis & gold were the same price during the 1970s.

$40/oz in my sole experience buying..the herb.

Seems gold-plated saxes must've been more common prior to the second world war? There was a SSBA tenor selling for $149,000 with about a zillion photos, online.

What type saxophone is the platinum one in the Helen Mirren movie Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari?

 

[bobstad]

Opps, apparently my reference to The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari & Helen Mirren is mistaken.

I seem to recall a film with a circular piano keyboard instrument, and also a platinum alto sax. Anyone?

 

[bobstad]

Ah ha!!

I have a 2 ounce bottle of a medicinal oil with a dropper for the lid of that bottle. On the end of the dropper is a rubber bulb, which is squeezed to draw the oil into the dropper.

I'm going to see if I can slice the end of the rubber dropper bulb off, to put over the foot on the end of the low-C rod mechanism.

I have just a little oil left, so when that's gone I'll see if I can make this work? Just a little, black rubber nipple, instead of the cork-and everything is here, close to hand.

I'll post a photo when it's done. Glad we wrestled with this a little. Seems like a potential winner.

 

[skeller047]

Ah ha!!

I have a 2 ounce bottle of a medicinal oil with a dropper for the lid of that bottle. On the end of the dropper is a rubber bulb, which is squeezed to draw the oil into the dropper.

I'm going to see if I can slice the end of the rubber dropper bulb off, to put over the foot on the end of the low-C rod mechanism.

I have just a little oil left, so when that's gone I'll see if I can make this work? Just a little, black rubber nipple, instead of the cork-and everything is here, close to hand.

I'll post a photo when it's done. Glad we wrestled with this a little. Seems like a potential winner.

Why? The only wrestling that’s being done is you trying to find an alternate solution for no good reason.

If you can cut the top off a rubber dropper bulb, you can cut a piece of cork. Contact cement is the easiest and cheapest way to attach it. Cork as a key foot is the best solution for the job. Other solutions have been tried and still 99.9% of saxophones use cork.

 

[Targa]

Ah ha!!

I have a 2 ounce bottle of a medicinal oil with a dropper for the lid of that bottle. On the end of the dropper is a rubber bulb, which is squeezed to draw the oil into the dropper.

I'm going to see if I can slice the end of the rubber dropper bulb off, to put over the foot on the end of the low-C rod mechanism.

I have just a little oil left, so when that's gone I'll see if I can make this work? Just a little, black rubber nipple, instead of the cork-and everything is here, close to hand.

I'll post a photo when it's done. Glad we wrestled with this a little. Seems like a potential winner.

Except that rubber bulb will have the oily stuff on it which you will have to remove to make it stick.
I’ve got lots of chewed up rubber cat toys perhaps a bit cut off one of them would be suitable?