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Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 1:25 pm
by arpthark
I have some original old white ones that I can replace this with, but I thought it was interesting. Spoiler alert: it is really noisy.

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Re: Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 1:39 pm
by MiBrassFS
And here we said the tuba isn’t a percussion instrument!

Re: Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 1:43 pm
by arpthark
MiBrassFS wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2024 1:39 pm And here we said the tuba isn’t a percussion instrument!
Definitely some parts slapping against each other here!

Also, the bumpers have the consistency of sidewalk chalk.

Re: Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 5:28 pm
by bloke
Would that be nitty or gritty?

Re: Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:25 am
by arpthark
I gotta say, after tightening up the white ones a little bit, they are pretty much silent. This tuba is an institutional horn that is likely 45+ years old. Props to Miraphone. :thumbsup:

Re: Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 6:22 pm
by bloke
arpthark wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:25 am I gotta say, after tightening up the white ones a little bit, they are pretty much silent. This tuba is an institutional horn that is likely 45+ years old. Props to Miraphone. :thumbsup:
Yeah, I never replace those unless I see a crack in the threaded part, and the last thing I'm going to do is replace that excellent system with Minibal links.

There were some gray ones for a while that seemed as though they didn't last as long as the white ones. I asked Christian about that, he didn't seem to know about the gray ones or recall them, but sent me a complimentary handful of white ones with the stuff that I had ordered from them.

Re: Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:27 pm
by arpthark
bloke wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 6:22 pm
arpthark wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:25 am I gotta say, after tightening up the white ones a little bit, they are pretty much silent. This tuba is an institutional horn that is likely 45+ years old. Props to Miraphone. :thumbsup:
Yeah, I never replace those unless I see a crack in the threaded part, and the last thing I'm going to do is replace that excellent system with Minibal links.

There were some gray ones for a while that seemed as though they didn't last as long as the white ones. I asked Christian about that, he didn't seem to know about the gray ones or recall them, but sent me a complimentary handful of white ones with the stuff that I had ordered from them.
I have some of those. The thread diameter is different/smaller, and they were pulled off a tuba that got converted to Dubro. Half of them are cracked.

Re: Interesting Miraphone nylon ball linkage replacement

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:44 pm
by bloke
arpthark wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:27 pm
bloke wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 6:22 pm
arpthark wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:25 am I gotta say, after tightening up the white ones a little bit, they are pretty much silent. This tuba is an institutional horn that is likely 45+ years old. Props to Miraphone. :thumbsup:
Yeah, I never replace those unless I see a crack in the threaded part, and the last thing I'm going to do is replace that excellent system with Minibal links.

There were some gray ones for a while that seemed as though they didn't last as long as the white ones. I asked Christian about that, he didn't seem to know about the gray ones or recall them, but sent me a complimentary handful of white ones with the stuff that I had ordered from them.
I have some of those. The thread diameter is different/smaller, and they were pulled off a tuba that got converted to Dubro. Half of them are cracked.
I know what you're talking about. There were both gray and black plastic versions of basically Minibal links, but there were ALSO some gray versions of DVS links.