VALVE OIL (out-in-the-open troll warning)

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djwpe wrote:
........if you find something that seems to be more persistent, and overcomes whatever contaminants you introduce into the system, then use it.

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My latest bulk quart of lamp oil has citronella in it. So when I play outside there are no bugs around.
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bloke wrote: it's hard for me to tell much of a difference between 1 oz. bottles marketed as "valve oil", 1 oz. bottles marketed as "rotor oil", and 1 oz. bottles marketed as "slide oil".
My buddy worked as a machinist at LeBlanc in Kenosha. One day he was walking through the warehouse, and saw a guy seated at a 55 gallon barrel. He was methodically filling bottles of Holton Valve Oil.
The next day, he saw the same guy, seated at the same 55 gallon barrel. He was filling bottles of Holton Rotor Oil.
The next day . . . . you can guess this one . . . . . Holton Slide Oil.
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I am re-entering the world of pistons very soon... I forgot about all of this valve oil nonsense! :)
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So a 4P + 1R gives the best of both worlds, then!
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bloke wrote:MM PT-6P copy?
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"Even a broken clock is right twice a day".
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Actually guys, my tuba from Big Bottom Brass is finally being shipped. :P :roll:

Will post when the new (actual) tuba arrives.
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aqualung wrote:My buddy worked as a machinist at LeBlanc in Kenosha. One day he was walking through the warehouse, and saw a guy seated at a 55 gallon barrel. He was methodically filling bottles of Holton Valve Oil.
The next day, he saw the same guy, seated at the same 55 gallon barrel. He was filling bottles of Holton Rotor Oil.
The next day . . . . you can guess this one . . . . . Holton Slide Oil.
I figured as much back in the '80s--all the Holton oils all had that exact same peculiar odour. Surely everyone here has experienced the, um, aroma.
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bloke wrote:The "Leblanc" oil came in the same flat/round-shaped 1 oz. bottles (probably 75 cents) that the "Holton" oil came in...

...but the "Leblanc" oil was greenish-blue (just like Blue Juice) and the "Leblanc" oil odor was precisely the same odor as Blue Juice.
I remember that stuff, too--Valv-Kwik. They also sold Slid-Slik silde oil and the Ke-Bor oiling system for clarinet/oboe mechanisms and bores.

Whoever named those products apparently didn't go very far in skool. :mrgreen:
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