[Trombone-l] oil/trombotine lifetime

[Richard Corliss]

The roughing  up treatment is not what the Slide Doctor recommends. He
recommends just a water based brass cleaner.

After the Teflon treatment I found that using just liquid silicone, as in
SuperSlick, without anything else is enough. That way one avoids the creams,
and the problem of their build up, and one does not need any spray bottle.
When the liquid silicone starts to wear out a little spray can help extend
its use but it is time to use your cleaning rod and another couple of drops
of silicone.

Richard Corliss


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Pliskin" <daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com>
To: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] oil/trombotine lifetime


>
> >After a little bit of investigation I discovered that AutoFom is
apparently
> >a Teflon polymar recommeded by the Slide Doctor. It is found in
SuperSlide
> >which can be purchased through this site:
> >http://www.tromboneslide.com/index1.htm . He recommends that the the
inner
> >part of the outer slides first be cleaned by a water based brass cleaner,
> >such as Wrights Brass polish, and then add the polymar by a cloth
moistened
> >with the polymar. Don't confuse SuperSlide with the lubricant Super Slide
> >put out by REKA.
>
>
> The SuperSlide people want you to rough up the inside of your slide,
before
> using their Teflon treatment.  I wouldn't do that.  When I tried it, I
> roughed up the slide, using the coarsest buffing compound I would ever use
> on a trombone slide.  Then I tried their treatment.
>
> Initially the slide was pretty bad.  Then it became reasonably good.  But
it
> never became better than any of the non-treated slides I've worked on.
>
> .and the stuff was expensive, too.
>
> My feeling is that if your slide tubes are clean, smooth, straight,
parallel
> and aligned, almost any lubricant will work well.  That's why I went back
to
> that tube of Trombotine, I had kicking around.
>
> It's an odd twist of fate.  I'm the guy who spent all of his free time
> trying to buy or make that ideal mouthpiece to go with my ideal trombone.
> Now that I've got the trombone I wanted and the mouthpiece I wanted, I no
> longer care about equipment.
>
> .well, I could use a new case, I suppose.
>
> DanP
>
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