[Hornlist] Bumpers

2008-02-13 Thread phirsch
Larry Jellison states: I quit playing Kopprasch several years ago because I thought the sounds coming out of my horn were annoying, too. Never thought of blaming the bumpers. More somberly, has there ever been a discussion on this list of bumpers? Bumpers need to allow quiet valve action, not

[Hornlist] Bumpers

2003-06-20 Thread G Napuda
All. Cork vice rubber-vinyl compounds. I dunno. While still working as a Toolmaker early 60s, I made up a more than lifetime batch. We were working on a project among whose supplies was a sheet of black aerospace material that happened to be exactly the right thickness for bumper height. Salvaged