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Hello all techs and tech-minded people, I have developed a problem with the neck screw on my AS100 sax.
The dang thing is sticking, sometimes so badly, I can't tighten or loosen it.
I've tried swapping the lyre side screw for the neck screw, but it doesn't help much.
The "clamp" is the standard Selmer VI/VII, split ring tenon reciever clamp with the tightening screw on the right and the lyre screw on the left.
I have noticed the tang side of the tenon receiver that the screw passes through before the threaded tightening portion seems bent TOWARDS the threaded part. Instead of "parallel" lines being suggested by the split portion, they would be "intersecting" lines.
I don't have time to take it into the tech today, as I NEED to play it tonight and tomorrow.
Should I try to open up the split and re-parallel the clamp, or chase the threads on the horn and screw with a tap and die? If tap and die, what number size would it be? I really don't want to screw it up, but it has become almost IMPOSSIBLE at times to loosen the screw.
Thanks,
dv
The dang thing is sticking, sometimes so badly, I can't tighten or loosen it.
I've tried swapping the lyre side screw for the neck screw, but it doesn't help much.
The "clamp" is the standard Selmer VI/VII, split ring tenon reciever clamp with the tightening screw on the right and the lyre screw on the left.
I have noticed the tang side of the tenon receiver that the screw passes through before the threaded tightening portion seems bent TOWARDS the threaded part. Instead of "parallel" lines being suggested by the split portion, they would be "intersecting" lines.
I don't have time to take it into the tech today, as I NEED to play it tonight and tomorrow.
Should I try to open up the split and re-parallel the clamp, or chase the threads on the horn and screw with a tap and die? If tap and die, what number size would it be? I really don't want to screw it up, but it has become almost IMPOSSIBLE at times to loosen the screw.
Thanks,
dv