Valerie,
The trick for oiling via the slides while not dissolving the grease
into the rotors is to put the oil into the slide itself, then push
the slide all the way in with the open or rotor end of the slide
pointing up so the oil stays in the slide. Once the slide is all the
way in, all the grease is covered. At that point you can turn the
horn over so that the oil runs down onto the rotors.
I like to do this at the end of a practice session. I leave the horn
"rotors-down" on the stand until the next time I play it, when I pick
it up, work the rotors for a little bit, then empty the excess oil
out as I would the water.
I do the same thing immediately after I've washed out the horn with
water as you describe.
Carlisle
-amateur horn guy
On Apr 11, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Valerie WELLS wrote:
Valve care has been a confusing issue to me because I've gotten
contradictory instruction from those who should know (the horn
designer & the technician!). All I can do is share the personal
experience I've had with my Holton 179.
When I first bought my new Holton 179 just over a year ago, I
dilligently followed the instructions to oil it regularly by
putting oil in the valve slides. But, when I brought it to the
technician to have a loose tuning slide tightened up, he advised me
to NEVER put oil inside the valve slides of a Holton. He warned me
that adding oil to the inside of the slides would drag slide grease
into the valve cylinder & gum it up the valves of a Holton. He
gave some technical rationale for his advice about the valve design
of Holtons that I can't accurately repeat here.
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