Making your own valve oil - Page 3

Robert Rowe · 05-03-2006, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Deecy

Odorless lamp oil from Walmart - $3.00 for a quart.
Blue Juice, $?? for a tall, fat bottle. (It's been so long since I had to buy any.)
I used to mix them but now I use them alternately; lamp oil for a few days, then a dose of Blue Juice.
Works great and it's not expensive. Most $5.00/2 oz. bottle oils are just re-packaged odorless lamp oil, sometimes with a perfumed or color additive.
I mean, let's get real. There may be a few silicone based lubricants out there that cost more to produce, but most trumpet oils are not that sophisticated. Nor do they have to be.

Hi, Tom.

Have to agree with you. Occasionally, one may have a problem "mix-'n-matchin'", but most oils that we have discussed here are fine.

Interesting to know: late 19th Century, and early 20th Century -- whale oil was considered the "best" lubricant obtainable, for all things, in general. Doubtless, many early horn-players used whale oil. I have a 100-yr old JW Pepper Cornet, in "original" condition, with the valves in "original" condition (never replated, near as I can determine). Obviously, somekind of fine oil was used in maintaining this horn.

Robt
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