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https://warburton-usa.com/products/clea ... valve-wash

Anyone use it? Anyone tried it?

There used to be an oil on the market that claimed to clean the valves as it worked. It never used to be popular because when you started using it, your valves got worse because so much crud was working its way loose.

I wonder if clean stroke could be mixed with valve oil?

High-velocity hot water (ex: straight from a water heater through a brass nozzle via a RUBBER garden hose) - into the mouthpipe and out the small side of the main slide (past the valves, and while moving the valves) knocks out a very large percentage of the slime that tends to line tubas' valve sections (and p.d.q.)

I've gone over this before...
Have you seen @Matt Good's pictures he took after reading a post I left here, and then trying it?

In my experience it's already loose, and nothing is needed to free that lining of slime (other than - again - high-velocity hot water).

Then again...I'm the one who continues to post about avoiding spending $5 - $10 oz. on liquids to pour into brass instruments.

Yeah, but… “THE STACCATOR!”

https://warburton-usa.com/collections/a ... -staccator

I met Terry @ 40 years ago. Pretty great guy. He sure has come up with some interesting stuff to market over the years!

Whatever happened to an old-fashioned snake brush for lead pipes, valve slides, and valve ports? I still have mine after all these decades.