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BillG
“Sometimes a few drops of water will collect in a socket that aren’t wicked up during normal swabbing. Be on the lookout for these, as sockets are quite susceptible to cracking…”
In my flute case I have a piece of tissue paper I place on my finger just for swabbing the socket joints after playing. Then I assemble the whole flute and just pop it into the rain barrel full of soft rainwater. 