difficulty tightening/loosening my bow

[myrick]

One of my bows is getting really hard to tighten/loosen. What is the preferred way to free up a sticky screw/slider mechanism?

[anonymous0726]

I've seen a dab of white grease used. Maybe graphite powder would do it as well?

[Paul Warburton]

Rub the screw across a candle a few times. Perafin works wonders on threaded stuff. Also, it won't damage or mess with the ebony or pernambuco.

[EJ_Dad]

I've always used graphite on the screw and the metal liner on the frog. Its usually quite handy, just find a No 2 pencil and color away.

[myrick]

thanks

all of these suggestions sound good. I tried the graphite first, as I had a good soft graphite pencil close to hand. worked just fine.

[K-townbasso]

Well, as a tuba player, i had a nice bottle of this red selmer slide grease. cleaned the threads on my screw off good, and put a dab or two of the stuff on, works real good now. lasts forever (at least so far).