Hello Otto, A small (small [adj.]: little, hardly any) amount of slide grease on the threads of your screw-rim mouthpiece will help avoid this problem in future.
Best wishes, martin bender On 2010-09-07, at 10:49 AM, Otto Henry wrote: > Having given up banging the mouth piece on telephone books, heating in > hot water, freezing in the icebox, striking with a wood mallet, etc. etc.,the > rim in question refused to come loose and I stopped tormenting it for fear of > damage. It was, after all, a $200 Lawson. > I was playing on it the other day with the shank firmly seated in my Alex > 103 and just for kicks I grabbed the shank hard while it was seated in the > horn and gave the rim a good twist, and lo and behold the screw rim came > loose and I got it off! This also worked on my Shilke screw rim. > So here is another solution. > And thanks again to those that offered help! > > Regards to all- Otto > > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/axe102%40rogers.com "All great things are decided not by machines or gadgets, but by willpower; whoever has it will finally prevail." Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
