As you can see from my somewhat overexcited title, one should restrain
oneself from using pliers for any purpose, real or imagined, anywhere on a
french horn. If you (think you) have to use pliers to move the valve, it has
probably frozen up with corrosion and there's nothing you'll be able to do at
home to make it work well enough. Soap? - nope, kerosene?- no dice, valve oil?
- forget it, soaking? - useless, pliers? - permanent irrevocable damage. Take
it to someone who will do it right and for much less than it will cost to
repair the damage you'll do to it at home.
In my shop the easiest (thus cheapest) repairs are the ones that nobody
else has tried to fix. Customer tried to fix it - add 100% to undo customer
damage. Bad repairman fixed it wrong way - add 150% to undo. Dad fixed it
with vise and power tools - Would cost way to much to ever get it right again.
- Steve Mumford
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