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Originally Posted by sheepherder
Whale oil??? 
(It will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market.)  |
Oh, god no! My father had some whale oil when I was a kid in junior high school and tuning up my tuba one evening before a concert he said "Hey, I've got just the thing for it. It'll never freeze up."
So he coated the number three valve with the gunk, I reassembled it and pressed down on the valve. Where it stayed. I had to pull it back up by hand.
I removed the valve and cleaned everything up as best I could before using the proper lube. But that valve never worked the same again.