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10-4 good buddy! Case repair is the pits! I had a band director call me a week ago to do a repair on a bassoon case. Seems like the hinges needed to be replaced. He is one hour away. Was he willing to pay me for the repair plus the two hours travel? Well.... no. I can live without doing case repairs. They usually take three times longer than actually working on the horn.

Buy your case wheels and telescopic handles here:

http://www.clipperproducts.com/

For hinges and small stuff go here:

http://www.mcmaster.com/

I don't do windows, either!

Any suggestions on how to fix the wheels on my Walt Johnson case? I bought it from the horn's former owner and he let the wheels rust, and now they don't revolve at all.

After all, you're in brass instrument repair, not a luggage company. If more people realized that companies subcontract out the cases to luggage companies, then that's where they would properly go to get them fixed!

Oh man! And my wife was hoping you'd fix that folding handle on her travel bag! #$@%!

"My case smells, but you can fix that, right?"

I'm too cheap to pay someone to fix my cases. I just get screws and parts from the hardware store and re-enforce the heck out of it. Always turns out great...It's just a case...it only matters that it stays closed? Right?

Chuck(G) wrote:"My case smells, but you can fix that, right?"

WARNING FOR THE EASILY NAUSEATED
TubeNet post said this was an actual workshop job find...

http://www.people.memphis.edu/~jaross/i ... tbow2a.jpg

Anybody got a count on the appearances that rat has made here?
Somehow I never get tired of looking at it.....

Check out the intro at the source, Tubalicious

Thanks to Bloke and Tinker for some useful sites.

How do you repair missing case cover material? I don't want to use black duct tape as the edges will catch and roll and it will be a mess. Is there any sort of thin tape or other material available for sale that I can buy to make repairs?

Thanks,

joshstanman wrote:The rat is truly impressive. Was that really found in a tuba? If so, the lucky tubist on the other end had to gave gotten sick. Wow.

It's the Hanta-phone!

I remember an old Besson E-flat tuba I found in a closet of the band room at Colton Junior High School in 1969. Inside the tuba, we found a bag of hamburgers and fries from the original McDonald's on E Street in San Bernardino--even in 1969 it was the closest Mickey D's to Colton. Anyway, the bag had a logo that hadn't been used in years. The way we knew where it came from was a handwritten receipt with the address printed on it. The two hamburgers, two cheeseburgers, and four orders of fries were untouched, unchanged in color, and hard as a rock--there is always one junior high kid who would try to eat this kind of stuff! (No, not me!)

The amazing part was the price: $1.10 (including tax)!

The receipt was dated 1961.

the elephant wrote:..... It just made the package deal so much more pride-filled for me when the customer picked up the horn.

Per my earlier post.... Yes, I gripe and grumble about doing case repairs but I recognize that it's a very important part of band instrument repair... even though I often 'give away' lots of parts and labor doing so. Most band directors, parents, (and musicians, for that matter) don't know squat about the mechanics of their instruments. All that matters to most folks is that the instrument looks good, the case doesn't cause the instrument to dump onto the floor when they pick it up, and that the instrument plays reasonably in tune. Granted, most professionals know the difference between 'good' and 'bad' horns... but for the most part what the novice player sees is what counts.

yeah at camp over the summer the ground was so hott that it warped my case whells, so now its clunky. but yeah i like my wheels.