Hi Steve, The goal here is to minimize shipping costs. I don't think reducing the size of the package by removing the 1st branch and F branches would save enough to offset the labor costs.
Bob On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Steve Haflich <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Osmun <[email protected]> wrote: > > 3. Shipping. If you did decide to send the valves back to Knopf I'd > suggest having whoever is doing the screw bell conversion take the > bell off the horn. Then you would have a musical instrument part, a > valve set, not a musical instrument. ,,, > > Bob -- > > I'm curious why you didn't suggest having the local repair simply > unsolder and remove just the valve cluster. Smaller, and even less > valuable. Couldn't the valve replacement and relapping be accomplished > with just the unmounted cluster? (And isn't that how it is usually > done?) > > I suppose a potential down side would be that the total repair would be > performed in two places by two technicians who probably don't know one > another. If there were any problems with the reassembled instrument, > there might not be clear responsibility... > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/rosmun%40osmun.com > > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
