Excitement continues as I work on a friend and working musician's trumpet through the days! Amongst the usual dent removal and porting, here are some of the highlights of the endeavor!
The beginning cleaning stages of this King Legend found themselves in something just short of a science project. The trumpet's interior was coated in a slime green crust and accented with the sprinkling of red rot throughout the lead pipe. It was so dirty, the hole in the knuckle of the casing to lower 3rd tuning slide was sealed just fine until I cleaned it.
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| At least the corrosion has a sense of humor with the heart shape around it... |
A patch was constructed, first from a dead flute head joint and then from a spare silver plated knuckle. The flute head joint patch shriveled almost instantly as the lead free solder began to flow in the tinning process...
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| Some beautiful time was spent shaping and forming this lovely little trinket... |
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| Only to have it do this after some heat was applied! |
The jury is still out, meaning I just moved on and have yet to research the incident, on why this happened but nonetheless, there was a successful patching!
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| Success! It was a trip worrying about the surrounding solder joints but heat control paid off! |
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| Shiny and relatively inconspicuous... |
Valve work...
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| 1st and 3rd posed the greatest resistance |
After talking more in depth about Patrick's hand position, further detail was pressed into lapping the pistons in a way to cater to his uneven depression issues... of the pistons... Pat is doing just fine as far as I can tell. If you are concerned, I'm sure he'd let you buy him a beverage of choice and talk about his feelings.
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| In the process of lapping, I applied pressure to the piston to simulate the path it was destined to take. |
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This approach was done because Pat informed me he was not going to break this habit anytime soon.
Spot plating was also done to the waterkey to preserve the shiny, royal look of this lovely noise maker.
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| It goes on looking very smokey and black, but shines up real nice-like |
Only a decision on replacing the lead pipe or to patch it is left. It has red rot, or the dezincification of the brass, throughout most of it so the full replacement would be the best long term solution...
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| It's all coming together... |
Stay tuned!
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