One of my customers dropped his Drake ceramic mouthpiece, and it took  
an unlucky bounce and damaged the tip/siderail junction....I've got to  
fill it and reface it, and am curious if any of you have found a  
filler material that works better than others. I'm thinking this sort  
of fragility is a real downside to this material.

BTW, I've played a couple of these, and they were nicely finished and  
played very well.

I have not worked on one but I would try JB Weld.   But first I would check with 
Drake.  I think they were offering free replacements at one time.




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From: STEVE GOODSON <saxgourmet@cox.net>
To: mouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 12:50:21 PM
Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Ceramic mouthpiece repair

  
One of my customers dropped his Drake ceramic mouthpiece, and it took an unlucky 
bounce and damaged the tip/siderail junction.... I've got to fill it and reface 
it, and am curious if any of you have found a filler material that works better 
than others. I'm thinking this sort of fragility is a real downside to this 
material. 


BTW, I've played a couple of these, and they were nicely finished and played 
very well.




      

as an update: I filled the chip with JB Weld, which worked well. An  
observation: the material used on this mouthpiece is REALLY soft, and  
I suspect we will see a lot of them damaged.


On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Keith Bradbury wrote:

>
> I have not worked on one but I would try JB Weld.   But first I  
> would check with Drake.  I think they were offering free  
> replacements at one time.
>
>
> From: STEVE GOODSON <saxgourmet@...>
> To: mouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 12:50:21 PM
> Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Ceramic mouthpiece repair
>
>
> One of my customers dropped his Drake ceramic mouthpiece, and it  
> took an unlucky bounce and damaged the tip/siderail junction....  
> I've got to fill it and reface it, and am curious if any of you have  
> found a filler material that works better than others. I'm thinking  
> this sort of fragility is a real downside to this material.
>
>
> BTW, I've played a couple of these, and they were nicely finished  
> and played very well.
>
>
>
> 

I've never epaired a mouthpiece with it, but I've used an epoxy adhesive with a filler to repair statuary. I used Araldite and a tile grout of the appropriate colour and it produces an extremely hard repair that works easily and finishes well. You'd have to consider toxicity, it wasn't an issue for me but it might be for you. Alternatively, explore the area of dental fillers.
Tony F.

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: STEVE GOODSON 
  To: mouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:50 AM
  Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Ceramic mouthpiece repair


    
  One of my customers dropped his Drake ceramic mouthpiece, and it took an unlucky bounce and damaged the tip/siderail junction....I've got to fill it and reface it, and am curious if any of you have found a filler material that works better than others. I'm thinking this sort of fragility is a real downside to this material.



  BTW, I've played a couple of these, and they were nicely finished and played very well.