Clarinet- Day 48

I haven't spent 48 days on this clarinet project, but that's almost what it seems like.

In reality, it's been a total of 6 school days of work with a couple late evening outside of the shop at my garage space at home to finish this bad boy(and to practice learning to play it for the final play-test)!

So, in my last post, I pointed out some dirty, old and cracked tenon corks on my clarinet. Here is a before and after picture of one of the tenon corks after I replaced it:

                           Notice how the cork looks "fresh" and bright on the new cork(right picture)

After I removed the old cork with a pair of pliers(scary!) and cleaned the old contact cement off with goo-gone to create a smooth bonding surface, I cut the new cork to fit, and sanded all the way around so the joints would fit perfectly together. Unfortunately, I did not take any photos during this process, I'll make sure to remember for future posts.
When all of my project was ready to be turned in to be graded, I had done the following:
straightened and polished keys, install new pads that all seal against the  tone holes evenly not letting any air escape, as well as cutting, shaping and sanding new "foot corks" which is the shaped piece of cork that lives under most of the keys and acts as a stop or brake by making contact with the body(pictured on the right):

First Project Snapshot

I will expand upon this post later this week when I'm actually finished, but below has been my first project in my repair class.
We were tasked with repairing used school instruments from a music program that loans instruments to students with financial difficulties in middle school if they can not afford their own instrument.
My instrument had been sitting in a closet for 15+ years, so there were many pads that needed replacing(I replaced all of them and all the key corks) as well as perform a full body chemical bath on the instrument to get all the yucky germs, dirt, grime and dust off of the instrument to make it appear new.

More to come in this post later this week.

                   This is the clarinet before I started taking it apart. Notice the brown round corks on both ends of both parts of this clarinet. They are dark and worn. Forgive me for not capturing more detailed pictures.

Below, the instrument is disassembled and ready for me to remove all of the white key pads and the brown key corks and tenon corks(the round corks circling the ends of the instrument).