Thread: Soldering brass.

I've done it again... I found an old Cornet in a junk store. It's a Boosey and Co, and the serial number shows it to be from around 1911. Difficult to play by modern standard, but it's been over 50 years for me as well.. This one is silver plated, so i'm lucky it doesn't need soldering! It's in amazing shape, considering. Bit of a clean, and some oil for the valves... Need something gentle to clean it. I have some Simply Green stuff that's amazing on aluminium, but not sure about this. No ultrasonic cleaner on it, at least not yet. I do not want to damage the plating. Thing has two mouthpieces, each of which is worth more than I paid for the whole thing... No wonder I'm broke, though. A sensible muppet would flip it.


There's a Boosey euphonium there as well, in need of rescuing.... sigh. So, along with an OKA, a Series III, a 300TDi D1, a currently non running TD5 D2, and a FIAT 124 Sport project, I was running out of things to not do...

Note to self: Don’t leave the acidic electrolysis bath uncovered. Still, I suppose the resulting mess might polish out. Otherwise I might be replating the horn, or taking it back to brass and lacquering it. Sigh. Silly me.