Slide Set-up

Please note, many of the outer handslides require disassembly in order to maximize the results of the slide setup.

A Slide Setup includes:

• Chem-clean and polish the inside of the outer tubes
• Straighten all four handslide tubes
• Remove any dents or flat places; round the tubes. Please understand that tubes that have been “repaired” by others, making them larger in the process, do not always result in perfect action
• Test individual tube pairs to make sure that there is no friction
• When both pairs of tubes work correctly, assemble the outer handslide if it has been disassembled
• Check and adjust width of right hand grip to insure the outer tubes are parallel
• Check and adjust the left hand grip to insure that each inner tube centered in its respective outer tube
• Spot lacquer any areas where lacquer was removed due to the necessity of heating to re-solder parts, for handslides that have been disassembled and reassembled
• Using Great Slide Cleaning Polish, remove any remaining oxidation on the inside of outer tubes
• Apply the Great Slide Slickcoat Sealant polymers to fill the valleys in the brass on the inside of the outer tubes and make the surface as uniformly smooth as possible
• Clean several times to remove most of polymer treatment residue
• Treat the outside brass surface areas with both Great Slide Polymer products to provide a protective shine
• Play, test the action of the slide to make sure slide function is as good as possible
• Check water key for proper closure, replace the cork and spring if necessary
• Align and lubricate water key
• Replace the felts in the cork barrels (unless the slide uses springs)

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