Bass string cleaning tube

drathbun · Post by **drathbun** » Sun May 07, 2006 6:25 am

Based on a plan from this website:

http://www.tunemybass.com/strings/bass_string_cleaning_tube.html

I built a bass string cleaning tube. It is really simple. Just get some PVC from your hardward store with a couple of caps. Glue one cap on one end and then glue a wine cork into the other cap. Screw a cuphook into the cork(I used a bent pin) to hold the ball-ends of the strings. Then just hang the strings on the hook and slide them into the tube filled with denatured alcohol. Stand the tube in the corner overnight and you're done! Works great!

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Sun May 07, 2006 6:33 am

I use a similar rig for cleaning fret wire. I fill it wit naptha and let the frets soak to remove the manufacturing oils and any other crud they may have picked up.

jps · Post by **jps** » Sun May 07, 2006 8:01 am

"a wine cork "

If anyone is interested in a good video on wine corks I can send it to you (beware of devilish content!).

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Sun May 07, 2006 3:12 pm

Jeff, I saw that one last week - I didn't know corks needed that treatment before use!

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Sun May 07, 2006 3:39 pm

What treatment? I'm curious now....

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon May 08, 2006 1:46 am

There is an art to soaking a cork before use.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Mon May 08, 2006 4:49 am

With practice, you can become a Master Cork Soaker!

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Mon May 08, 2006 4:55 am

Then there was that time that 2 master cork soakers were accidently soaking each other's corks but that was a long time ago - 1968 or 70 - something like that.

drathbun · Post by **drathbun** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:35 am

Artificial corks don't soak as well as natural ones do.

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:22 am

That would be a Rickenbacker Corkensoaker!