Miraphone Rotary valves?

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Miraphone Rotary valves?

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I'm cleaning my Miraphone 188 and trying to figure out how or if you can remove the valve from the housing. I want to take them out so i can clean through the entire line of valves. If anyone has any ideas i'll take them! this is a great forum!
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Tigertuba wrote:I'm cleaning my Miraphone 188 and trying to figure out how or if you can remove the valve from the housing. I want to take them out so i can clean through the entire line of valves. If anyone has any ideas i'll take them! this is a great forum!
If you don't know how to take them out, then you shouldn't be doing it. Take your tuba to a good repair shop and have them teach you how to do it.
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There are a number of web sites and books that provide a good description of how to remove and clean rotary valves. That said, I agree with the previous post, you don't want to do this yourself if you've never done it and don't have the proper tools, such as a small leather mallet.
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Back in the 70's, Miraphone used to pack a little wooden hammer and a dowel and a screwdriver in their little toolkit pouch that came with tubas. I may even have one lurking about...
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Chuck(G) wrote: Back in the 70's, Miraphone used to pack a little wooden hammer and a dowel and a screwdriver in their little toolkit pouch that came with tubas. I may even have one lurking about...
I sure wish they still did that....but nowadays someone would find a way to sue Miraphone over their own idiocy of ruining their tuba.
Bleah. If you want to get rid of that one that is lurking about....lemme know.

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