Trumpet base..
Trumpet base..
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Bobbybedtime

Original Poster:

71 posts

209 months

Saturday 30th July 2011
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Hi all,

Slowly getting things together with my rebuild and have noticed that the trumpet base has probably been played with. Reason I say this is all the trumpets are numbered, scratched on the side of the trumpets and one of the trumpets is not fully home in the base. Guessing either it was cut to short or someone couldn't press it home.
Does anyone have a drawing or dimensions I could use to see what I need to do to put right.

Thanks,
BBT.

Wedg1e

27,041 posts

295 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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Usually if you bung the whole assembly in the oven at 100 degrees or do for half an hour the alloy expands and allows you to pull the trumpets out.
The trumpets are all the same length but the central 4 sit slightly higher in the base (there are steps cast-in so they can only go in so far).
If they're numbered, is it because they're oversize and have had their rims cut to allow them all in?

Bobbybedtime

Original Poster:

71 posts

209 months

Tuesday 2nd August 2011
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Thanks wedg1e,
I'll take a measure and check for equal lengths, will help me understnd why ones not fully home.
Rgds,
BBT.