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The first piston of my MW 2250 always rebounds slowly when blowing. Could anyone please tell me how to fix it

Before attempting to figure out if there's something weird causing that phenomenon (such as an imperfect casing or piston) I would do these things:

- clean the bottom cap interior
- clean the ports going in and out of that valve casing. (This is not nearly as easy as typing these words about doing it, even some so-called "techs" don't do a complete and thorough job of this.)
- completely dry out that valve casing and piston, and carefully examine their surfaces fpr scale. Use your flashlight or your phone light to reveal this. Scale is either white or greenish white. For a piston to ride nicely inside a casing with both of them coated with scale is basically expecting them to ride nicely against each other with a very thin coating of limestone rock on both of them.)
- This one requires finesse and care: Gingerly run a very small very sharp tipped object down the valve guide track in each corner, and check for built up scale, trash, or imperfections.
- check the valve guide itself.
As a repair guy, the first thing I would do - after having done all of those - would be too run the piston in the casing up and down by hand and see if I can detect any friction points with my fingers. If I felt such places and before doing something more radical - particularly if I felt one friction point at the port which connects the mouthpipe to the first valve casing - and check for tension that might be able to be released from from heating the solder at that connection just enough to allow it to shift, but not enough to allow it to make a horrible mess.

You might want to just take it to someone who has a really good reputation for messing with stuff like this - stuff which can easily be messed up by someone who really doesn't know what they're doing. It might be worth driving a few hours to reach someone like that. The idea/goal is to do as little as possible - beyond the cleaning steps outlined, and I didn't discuss how to remove scale - to make it work properly.

Realize that the piston and casing were originally manufactured with very sophisticated tools, and some people tend to use some pretty hillbilly types of tools to try to make them work as they did before. That usually doesn't turn out well.

Thanks a lot for ur advice! its really worked!!! When I encountered this problem (the first piston rebounds slowly), someone told me that is a defect of MW2250.I mean, his words tend to make me belive that all 2250 have such problem, beg me pardon,sir, have u ever heard of something similar? To be honest, I just got this instrument for nearly 2 month, so it's horrible to enconted any problems on it now. One more thing, could u please tell me something more about instrument maintenance? I would be appreciate if u do that! Anyway, thank you very much!!!

If it's new, you're going to need to be OILING it a tremendous amount.

The shiny-brass valve casings are tarnishing (turning from yellow-brass to brown-brass) and tarnish does NOT form as if a smooth coating of paint.

Tarnish forms ROUGH, and needs to be scuffed SMOOTH (by the pistons) and OIL takes away the rough brown tarnish.

...Let casings turn brown and STAY brown, but OIL the pistons a TREMENDOUS amount - so that the forming tarnish is polished smooth by the pistons.

This is a "years" (not weeks) thing.

I oil the valves in my (NOT new) instruments every time I play them. It puzzles me that so many do not. Oil for valves is VERY thin, and there's nothing to keep it in place (and is mostly evaporates).

I also use VERY inexpensive oil, but everyone else is sick of hearing about it...

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kabuton wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 9:13 am Thank you very much for ur advice!!!!! Would u like to accept my add-friend request? I hope I can ask you more questions in the future.

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