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hey do you guys think coating a metal snake with electrical tape can be used as a replacement for the rubber ones

its all ive got for a while.
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uhh if i dont coat it, its going to tear up the inside walls of the horn/slides, creating nice grooves for mould to set in. Im just curious if for some reason electrical tape will have a bad effect or something........its not a problem for me

im serious, ive read that many places, was also recommended by my salesmen to cover the snake with a cloth or somethin

Just a speculation, but electrical tape comes off very easy, especially around water. Have you thought about shrink tubing yet?

if you are THAT concerned with it, buy a coated one. Electrical tape could give you just as big of problems as you think the metal snakes can. If it sticks to the metal on the snake, it will also stick onto the inside of your slides. might as well coat it in syrup, its also not abrasive.

XtremeEuph wrote:im serious, ive read that many places, was also recommended by my salesmen to cover the snake with a cloth or somethin

If I recall correctly, isn't your horn silver and gold? Maybe he was talking about being careful with the outside metal on your horn!

And like Wade, 40 years of snaked brushes didn't seem do do MY horns any harm, even the ones built in the 1800's. 'course, maybe he could tell from looking at you that you needed special attention...

haha !! Being a pain in the *** is fun...

.......glad you noticed

XtremeEuph wrote:haha !! Being a pain in the *** is fun...

I just wanted to let you know that I had a coated snake, and the brush actually came off of it. I think the plain old metal ones are better.

I've been trying to get my wife to jump in the tub with me and my tuba. She is a very fine scrubber of things and has been inclined in the past to get a new kink on, occasionally.
The goo on the back of electrical tape is a substance I don't want in the interior of my eminator of low vibrations.

So Elephant, let me get this straight... You're against using a coated snake???

I agree, just clean your damn horn already!!!

Got me to thinking though! (always painful!) What about this stuff??? The spray type might be perfect for a long snake!

Tim

windshieldbug wrote:

XtremeEuph wrote:haha !! Being a pain in the *** is fun...

bloke wrote:

The spray type might be perfect for a long snake!

. . . . I do not know how long your snake is (and do not care to find out!), but companies already manufacture fairly durable coatings for them...and some of them are pre-lubricated.

Has the thread shifted to using snakes for colonoscopic activities?

the elephant wrote:Nah, just going out to buy one when you already have another one handy, just because the new one is coated and therefore, somehow "better." (It cost a little more so it must be better. Right?)

Wow youre a stubborn one. It has nothing to do with it being BETTER or MORE EXPENSIVE, I didn't even take those into account. I was just curious if they were "Safer", Gee, give it a rest.

I'm not so sure it's stupid to think the plastic ones are safer, but I'm thinking specifically of the grooves. The coil is grooved, and that causes some concern when I'm snaking through the valve section. The edges of the ports get pretty thin, and I feel like trying to pull the grooved snake around those edges could harm/break them.

Ryan_Beucke wrote:I'm not so sure it's stupid to think the plastic ones are safer, but I'm thinking specifically of the grooves. The coil is grooved, and that causes some concern when I'm snaking through the valve section. The edges of the ports get pretty thin, and I feel like trying to pull the grooved snake around those edges could harm/break them.

So, make your own. Get a bunch of bottle or test-tube brushes and a length of bicycle cable housing. Cut the brush to length and crimp the end in the cable housing.

Alternatively, get a length of clear vinyl tubing slightly larger than the body of your all-metal snake and thread it through the tubing.

There are all sorts of ways to skin a cat, if you put your mind to it. I made my wife a swab for her curved bass flute headjoint by taking some string-trimmer nylon, flattening one end and sewing a swab to it. You probably could do the same with some plastic tubing.

LMFAO wow, you must be a little sensitive. I only asked you again because I wanted to be sure. My apology.

Xtreme "who cares more for his horn than internet lurkers" Euph

Hey, look at the number of posts the elephant has credited to his avatar. I wouldn't call that being a "lurker."

iiipopes wrote:Hey, look at the number of posts the elephant has credited to his avatar. I wouldn't call that being a "lurker."

Fine, hes a stinkin leach.