How To Remove A Stuck Trombone Tuning Slide

This video is a "How to" for repairing a stuck main tuning slide on a trombone.
Here is the link to "Introduction To Stuck Tuning Slides":
• Introduction To Stuck ...
Here is the link to "How To Remove Very Stuck Tuning Slides":
• How To Remove VERY Stu...
Here is the link to "Cleaning Dirty Tuning Slides"
• Cleaning Dirty Tuning ...
Link to "Crooked Trombone Tuning Slides" : This video will be published soon.
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[@emiliosantibanez1112]

Just got a rotor running slide that had over 2 years stuck with your technique. Thank you so much 😊

[@BigDexter152]

I have a Strad with a stuck 3rd valve slide. Its been stuck for over 30 years. I watched tbis video, i have to admit the method with the scew drivers worried me. It worked a treat. Thanks. 👍

[@gcsings]

Genius. Thank you so much. You saved me a trip to the repair shop days before my New Year's gig. My son is a drummer so there were plenty of drumsticks and even some Lincoln logs. Rrally appreciate it. Thanks again!

[@starrydawn]

thank you! my trombones been in storage because it's tuning slides been stuck for years. I never thought to try to fix it myself versus taking it to a shop

[@simont5438]

Thanks... I tried with chicken drumsticks but they were too greasy. Normal pieces of wood worked for me. Thanks very much, Art!

[@wesleemusicrepair9820]

Art, good to see you! Glad to have found you on here. Been many years since Redwing, good to see you’re still in the craft! I chuckled when I saw you dump your box of wood and saw the wood dowel bearing plate seat tool we made. I still use mine as well!

[@TheBrassandWoodwindShop]

Hi Wes, It is good to hear from you. I sometimes wonder who is still repairing instruments after 26 years and I am glad to see that you are too.

[@alphabeets]

Great series of videos. Thank you.

[@LaurasLastDitch]

Nice video, Art!

[@alphahorn6163]

Once again, awesome video.

[@lonelybullet1]

Your videos are very interesting to watch👍

[@georgefelder4908]

Like I stated on your other video: try Kroil as a penetrating oil---and I apologize if that is what you already use! It almost works instantly!

[@jorymil]

Nice old King there!

[@matthudelson3409]

I managed to get my tuning slide unstuck using the drumstick method. Thanks!

[@llespiau]

What do you use as protection laque brass?

[@biglegsman8414]

4:50 twist 🌽

[@henrylandrum6079]

Mine has mostly sat in a case for 20 years. Its rusted some, not very much. It is a trigger trombone so both tuning slides are stuck and the trigger doesnt work.

[@ultramanxk7]

Highly ingeneous!

[@LanternOfLight7]

What is the best penetration oil to use

[@aljazpirc9614]

Hi. My tuning slide is stucked because I knocked it somewhere and bow is little bit missaligned but still can regulate it. Do this change the sound of trombone?

[@markjohnson3413]

My tuning slide is crooked and I don't know how to fix that, you said there will be a video out soon in your description but I don't see a link yet. My tuning slide is stuck all the way in, not farther out like you said is usually the case, one side will not budge at all while the other budges a little.

[@TheBrassandWoodwindShop]

I was hoping to do a video on that, but I have not done one yet. The method shown in the video should work to get your slide unstuck. Use leverage mostly or entirely on the stuck slide and not as much on the side that is a little loose. I will try to do a video on the crooked tuning slide, but I am not sure exactly when I will be able to do it.

[@mausisbestwaifu8376]

My trombone is a 1 year old yamaha ysl-154 tenor trombone and it is very hard to pull out the tuning slide is that a problem?

[@TheBrassandWoodwindShop]

On a newer trombone, the likely problem is not lime build-up, but that when the main tuning slide is pulled, one side of the tuning slide is being pulled slightly farther than the other side and it is getting cocked in there ever so slightly out of parallel. Then it cocks from one side to the other as you are pulling it out. There is a way to help the problem, but it requires a saw and removing some metal. I hope to do a video on this in the future. If you do not want to do any cutting, you can just keep the tuning slide well greased and try to push it straight using two hands to hold the bell section and two thumbs to push out the slide. I hope this helps.

[@christophermercer2632]

I got an old king 605 and the bottom tuning slide pipe broke in half as in half stuck in the tuning slide and the other stuck in the trombone any suggestions on how i can get the parts unstuck ??

[@TheBrassandWoodwindShop]

If part of it is sticking out you can solder the slide back together and pull it out. If it is stuck all the way in you can try to get it out with a slide expander but it can easily cause more damage if it is not done correctly. It may have to be unsoldered and then removed. It is hard to say without seeing it.

[@popodopolos507]

I wish saw this when my slide got stuck cause I ended up with a cut lip when my slide finally came out as it hit my jaw.

[@michaeloverholser1]

What model/make trombone was that you were working on?

[@TheBrassandWoodwindShop]

It was an older model King. I think it was a Liberty model, but I am not sure.

[@MrAcey-gn2xp]

my tuning slide doesnt wanna go back in

[@dwauqawesome6045]

Make a video about how to lock your trombone back it won't work

[@twistedtrails8128]

Seriously? Trombones need a tuning slide? The trombone IS one big tuning slide! ;)

[@TheBrassandWoodwindShop]

Let me guess..... You are a tuba player. ;)

[@twistedtrails8128]

@@TheBrassandWoodwindShop LOL!

[@jorymil]

Some players do just that... play first position a bit off the cork barrels. Lets you do slide vibrato in first, plus lets you play the 7th partial Ab in tune.

[@frustratedbaboon6486]

Wow can't do it yourself without hundreds of dollars worth of tools.