Dent remover...

[Dan Schultz]

Joe,

We've gone away from using the plastic adhesive guards on the 20K, as they just didn't hold up in the field like teachers wanted. Just to give you a head's up.

Andy Smith
Parts Manager
Conn-Selmer

That's a shame. I guess the plastic guards have received the same false bad stigma as Lexan mouthpieces.

[tubarepair]

Those self-adhesive, plastic guard wires are available from Ed Strege at Badger State supply...

[Dan Schultz]

Those self-adhesive, plastic guard wires are available from Ed Strege at Badger State supply...

Automotive molding works well. The only difference is that the ones sold by Badger State have a prettier end treatment.

[ASTuba]

Those self-adhesive, plastic guard wires are available from Ed Strege at Badger State supply...

and from us as well. Like I said, I don't mind the guards, but too many people in the south were complaining about them falling off of instruments in the heat and humidity. This change happened WAY before I got to Conn-Selmer, but they don't want to go back to that right now.

[tubaguy9]

I guess my thought on the plastic strips, is that they weren't strong enough...
I understand the repair side of them, but as far as my experiences with them in corps, on some King 1151's, we got dents in the shoulder area that would not have happened with metal strips. The corps just peeled them right off when they figured out they were plastic...That was my biggest criticism of them, is that on a corps horn, it gave false hopes of the area being reinforced.
Now that I'm on the repair side...I can see where the plastic strips are helpful, but at the same time, the sousas I've seen, all but where the metal strip was, had been beaten to hell...