This week flew buy. We continued to do work on clarinet bodies, key fitting and padding. One issue that I found was that the factory holes in the posts for the Ab key were not aligned. To fix this, I removed the post from the body and opened up the hole. I then epoxied the post back in place using the hinge rod to align the post. The following morning, the hinge rod fit perfectly. Using a hinge tube shortener, I then refit the key and fixed all the issues.
The only other interesting issue that I came across this week was a crack in a tone hole. Using a silicone plug to maintain the shape of the hole, I filled the crack with super glue, then used a set of tone hole levelers to reshape it. The pad I installed now seals perfectly.
With my body issues fixed, I buffed my keys and began padding the instrument. The first re-pad is always the worst. I finished most of the padding, save the Ab/Eb key. It took way too long, but corking is all that remains.
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