Alternative to valve oil

[trouble]

Anyone know if there's an alternative to valve oil? I kind of ran out
a few months ago and have been using water instead... with rather poor
results, mind. Just wondering, before I go into town and buy a couple
of bottles, what did they use before valve oil?

Ciao.

[Tino]

gas-oil
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[devo3]

Some use lamp oil.
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[G or C Elliott *]

That Kentucky jelly the dingbat tried on toast? Glenn

* Re: Our address...From a Scot ballad, circa 1350:
"Oh, my name is Little Jock Elliot, an' ( wha daur meddle wi' me?")

[Doc]

"Tino" <ti...@tinogil.com> wrote in message
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> gas-oil

Unless "gas-oil" means something other than what it sounds like, i.e. a
mixture of gasoline and oil, NEVER use gasoline for anything but inside an
engine. It's extremely flammable, and it's extremely toxic both to your skin
and to inhale. Plus, I would suspect it evaporates too quickly to be of any
particular use.

I've been refilling my Al Cass bottle with lamp oil for years and recently
have incorporated a tip I saw in here of putting a drop or 2 of transmission
fluid in a bottle (valve oil sized bottle that is). Not sure if it actually
helped but doesn't seem to have caused any problems.

[Russ Schmidt]

I remember reading an article once about the (university?) band that played
live (outdoors) during the winter olympics in lake placid-all the national
anthems and even most of the NBC television break music was live...somewhere
I recall them using vodka on valves and t-bone slides, because it wouldn't
freeze on the horns like oil does.

other uses (antifreeze) are of course obvious...seems like that was the year
that chuck mangione was playing a olympic "theme" of one sort or another
(probably used a large quantity of vodka himself)

:)

russ

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[Ken Fung]

To answer your second question......I have read one old 19th Century
brochure, the manufacturer actually described the use of saliva to
lubricate the valves!!! Well, the saliva may be a good lubricant but
that is probably the reason old cornets from the 19th Century leak like
hell.....you probably don't want to do that.....

Valve oil is not a rarity after all.

[Dagger]

Geeze
The ol lamp oil again
This has been around for years
Here is the ol recipe
Ultra lamp oil plus a few drops of mystry oil (red stuff in a red can)
Ratio about 10 to 1
worked great for us poor folks
DCD

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[jim hickle]

Ken Fung <fkm_n...@mac.com> wrote in message news:<402b9519$1...@newsgate.hknet.com>...

> To answer your second question......I have read one old 19th Century
> brochure, the manufacturer actually described the use of saliva to
> lubricate the valves!!! Well, the saliva may be a good lubricant but
> that is probably the reason old cornets from the 19th Century leak like
> hell.....you probably don't want to do that.....
>
> Valve oil is not a rarity after all.
>

Not rare but expensive -- a year's supply costs over three dollars :)

[William Graham]

"jim hickle" <jhi...@icubed.com> wrote in message
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Not even that....I bought a gallon of, "Lamplight Farms" ultra pure lamp oil
for about $10. - Enough to last several lifetimes.....

[trouble]

jhi...@icubed.com (jim hickle) wrote in message news:<abe86f0d.04021...@posting.google.com>...

Three bucks!! I could buy 300 penny whistles for that.

[Linda Fox]

On 13 Feb 2004 18:39:45 -0800, the_...@hotmail.com (trouble) wrote:

>Three bucks!! I could buy 300 penny whistles for that.

Don't waste your money. Just put your lips together and blow... :o)

Linda ff

[frodo]

In article <XABWb.15592$Gr4....@news01.roc.ny>, "devo3"
<de...@frontiernet.net> wrote:

> Some use lamp oil.

Heheheheheh........ Yep.... some _do_ !!! A bit like Christmas, 'Ye Old
Lamp Oil', isn't it! Jus' keeps on coming around with the latest
lot.......... and it's _always_ good !! Those who 'kave seen the light'
just smile and nod, I guess.

I have to report that since I followed the first debate that I'd seen ( no
doubt many preceded it and there've been quite a few since) and tried
'Lamp Oil' (around six years ago, now), I've used it ever since ( and in
_preference_ to other 'commercial drops'). No probs at all !!!

.... frodo.

[Ed Grant]

Since when has the price of a penny whistle only been $0.01?

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[THE Old Man]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:53:01 +0000, Linda Fox <lind...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>
>Don't waste your money. Just put your lips together and blow... :o)
>
>Linda ff

That's a great line. I'm gonna file it away for future use in a book
I'm considering writing. I think it will be called Tripoli or maybe
Bangkok .. some foreign city's name. I don't have it down tight yet
but there is Chinese trumpet player in a smoke filled cafe. His name
is Sammie. And one night he was having a bad time when the boss said
"play it again, Sammie" but he only shrugs his shoulders. The boss's
girlfriend, who is getting ready to catch a Greyhound bus, tells him
to "put your lips together and blow". Yeah! That line works.
Hmmm... maybe it should be "put your lips together and buzz"?