#YBL-321

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This trombone lever hinge rod has been in my workshop parts stock since before I started working here. Possibly waaay before I started working here; this is old packaging but I'm not sure just how old.

This week I finally used it. Saved me the effort of making a new hinge rod from scratch to replace one that was hella bent and on which screwdrivers had cammed out so many times that the slot in the end was almost gone.

Rolling it across my slide iron to see just how warped it is. It is very warped.

Hinge tube on the rotor lever isn't doing too hot either. When this thing came in I thought it was just going to be a rotor string replacement. It was a bit more than that. In the end I: straightened the bent lever hinge tube, replaced the hinge screw, chamfered the holes for the rotor thread because the edges were sharp enough to visibly start chewing through the first thread from the moment I put it on, cleaned out the handslide tubes because they were scratchy with accumulated dirt, realigned the inner handslide tubes because they were out of whack, replaced the slide bumpers because they were getting gross, and replaced the water key cork.