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Rings for press-fit leadpipes
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:10 am
by ttf_trb420
I have some press fit leadpipes with no ring around the end to prevent them from being pushed into the slide. Can I buy these anywhere (.547) and install them myself?
Rings for press-fit leadpipes
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:24 pm
by ttf_Dennis Clason
How good are you with a torch and soft solder?
Can you solder thin copper tubing together without putting holes in the tubing?
You can make an effective ring out of 12 ga copper wire if you have access to a ring mandrel. Soldering a ring to a leadpipe isn't too tough, but a leadpipe is not the place to learn the skill.
Rings for press-fit leadpipes
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:55 am
by ttf_Matt K
I think instrument innovations has something similar to this. Although I've had my tech just make a little ring for some pressfit pipes in the past. They charged like $10 to fabricate it, so I assume it wasn't particularly complicated. I also assume they would have ordered something if it existed but that isn't necessarily a valid assumption.
Rings for press-fit leadpipes
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:14 am
by ttf_baileyman
A hardware store with a good selection of miscellaneous plumbing bits may provide a solution. I found a brass ring to fir a .500.
Rings for press-fit leadpipes
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:17 pm
by ttf_anonymous
Hello
Mike from Instrument Innovations. I am sorry so far the press fit rings as well as the press fit adapters made to convert press in mouthpipes into threaded mouthpipes only come in .562 diameter. I really thought these would be more popular. Maybe we have not gotten the word out enough yet.
Thanks
Mike
Rings for press-fit leadpipes
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:18 am
by ttf_elmsandr
Quote from: MOKO on Sep 18, 2017, 04:17PMHello
Mike from Instrument Innovations. I am sorry so far the press fit rings as well as the press fit adapters made to convert press in mouthpipes into threaded mouthpipes only come in .562 diameter. I really thought these would be more popular. Maybe we have not gotten the word out enough yet.
Thanks
Mike
Note that the OP is talking about slide bore, not mouthpiece size. The shank size for a .562 horn is the same as a .547 horn. The rings should be identical.
I think that you are seeing just how slowly we trombonists actually buy and modify leadpipes. Pretty sure I'm going to get one of your receivers shortly, some rings may follow after I start playing things.
Cheers,
Andy
Rings for press-fit leadpipes
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:18 am
by ttf_elmsandr
Quote from: MOKO on Sep 18, 2017, 04:17PMHello
Mike from Instrument Innovations. I am sorry so far the press fit rings as well as the press fit adapters made to convert press in mouthpipes into threaded mouthpipes only come in .562 diameter. I really thought these would be more popular. Maybe we have not gotten the word out enough yet.
Thanks
Mike
Note that the OP is talking about slide bore, not mouthpiece size. The shank size for a .562 horn is the same as a .547 horn. The rings should be identical.
I think that you are seeing just how slowly we trombonists actually buy and modify leadpipes. Pretty sure I'm going to get one of your receivers shortly, some rings may follow after I start playing things.
Cheers,
Andy