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Moz
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Tenor sax was on it's stand when the heavy sax case toppled over an clouted it. No big deal, the sax was still on it's stand and no harm done; until I tried to play top E, F and F#. No movement at allm everything was jammed hard on to the sax noting would open an dclose of those top notes.
Close investigation revealed bent side keys and one of the rods (the longest on the sax) was bent.
? signs flashed before my eyes!
Sod this I though, time to get the watchmakers screwdrivers out.
To cut a rather tedious story short, the whole repair took about half an hour and was really quite easy, I had to take out two rods to get at the bent one. I straightened the rod gently using large pipe grips (for the reach, not for the power) and put everything back together.
The point of this is that for minor repairs you don't need a repairer so long as you don't remove too much stuff. I would quite happily strip down an old sax to have a go at pad replacement apart from the problem with springs. In the above repair I thought I may have come a cropper when, although the keys now worked, there was no spring return. Hidden in the depths of the rod-work was a tiny spring which was moved into place using a couple of tiny screwdrivers. OK for a small repair but doing a whole sax-worth of springs might be a step too far.
Anyone done spring replacement on a whole sax?
Moz
Close investigation revealed bent side keys and one of the rods (the longest on the sax) was bent.
? signs flashed before my eyes!
Sod this I though, time to get the watchmakers screwdrivers out.
To cut a rather tedious story short, the whole repair took about half an hour and was really quite easy, I had to take out two rods to get at the bent one. I straightened the rod gently using large pipe grips (for the reach, not for the power) and put everything back together.
The point of this is that for minor repairs you don't need a repairer so long as you don't remove too much stuff. I would quite happily strip down an old sax to have a go at pad replacement apart from the problem with springs. In the above repair I thought I may have come a cropper when, although the keys now worked, there was no spring return. Hidden in the depths of the rod-work was a tiny spring which was moved into place using a couple of tiny screwdrivers. OK for a small repair but doing a whole sax-worth of springs might be a step too far.
Anyone done spring replacement on a whole sax?
Moz
