Replacing top felts on an HB21

[Ansarum]

Anyone out there in the tubenet world willing to enlighten me on how I would go about replacing the felts on top of the casings of my HB-21?

Thanks,
Tim

[TheHatTuba]

Contact Joe Sellmansberger (bloke) or Alan Baer and get some Bloke Felts or a PVAK. No, it won't be the "donut" shape, but you won't regret it...

[TubaTodd]

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He's talking about the TOP felts. I had a Kalison horn that had the same basic type. I actually got a set of flat beige rubber replacements from the Tube Exchange. As for felt, when I worked at Hickey's music in Ithaca, NY, Gary would make them by hand from pieces of felt. Something tells me you can get pre-cut pieces somewhere and bloke may know.

[TheHatTuba]

He's talking about the TOP felts.

I know Didnt stop me from getting a top and bottom set for my Kali and Rudy...

[MartyNeilan]

If you get BlokeWashers or BaerWashers, you don't need those felt donuts anymore. The new washers go under the finger button instead of in the valve cap. I put a set of BlokeWashers on my Kalison, and I pulled out the worn felt donuts. I polished the top valve caps, and they looked pretty cool - all shiny silver with grooves in them.

[Daniel C. Oberloh]

For my customers and my own horns, I have never had a source for such felts so I invested in the cutting dies to make them in the custom sizes as I need them for a given job. Not sure who would stock them or where they might be ordered.

D. C. Oberloh
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[Kayla]

I ordered a set through Custom Music earlier this year.