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DMOTuba wrote:Dude, TubeNet is great! I was wondering what the yellow liquid was on my horns. So I thought, I'll check TubeNet! Low and behold...it must be from the hetmans valve oil.

I guess I'll go back to Blue Juice?
You prefer blue liquid to yellow liquid?

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DMOTuba wrote:Dude, TubeNet is great! I was wondering what the yellow liquid was on my horns. So I thought, I'll check TubeNet! Low and behold...it must be from the hetmans valve oil.

I guess I'll go back to Blue Juice?
What did you put in the search engine? Yellow liquid?

Sounds dangerous...

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Re: What's in Blue juice...

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HAHA!

Come to think of it, that is a little sketchy... Yeah, I searched yellow, and just read through a few. This Blue Juice forum ended up being on the second page I think.
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Re: What's in Blue juice...

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bububassboner wrote:What's in Blue juice...
Dead Smurfs.

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Re: What's in Blue juice...

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When I was using Hetmans #1 I used to get a yellow/green pastey crap collecting around valve ports. I now use Blue Juice on my piston horns and they stay clean.
I use Superslick rotary oil on my rotors 'cause I like the needle applicator.




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Re: What's in Blue juice...

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Wonder if there's any connection between the yellow/blue gunk related to the different oils and saliva ph.

I used blue juice for awhile on my 2000. BTW I oil my horns EVERY day... sometimes more than once depending on how much I'm doing. I did find I got the blue/green gunk all over my valves if I didn't play the horn for a few days.

I switched to homebrew then to hetmans after the green incident because I decided it couldn't be good to have that buildup on the valves. I have yet to experience the yellow phenomena, although, I usually have some yellow/brownish/greenish stuff coming out of the leadpipe when I use the snake no matter what valve oil I've been using.

so... my ph = blue stuff but not yellow... anyone else with this experience?
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I always figured it was kerosene with blue dye in it. Smells like kerosene, looks blue. Simple.

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I use blue juice on my piston horn. I rarely have to re-oil the valves...but when I do, I have to let the horn air out a little or the fumes will practically knock me out. But hey!......whatever works. 8)
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