I had the same problem on mine. I took a rat-tail file and made a little groove on the rim of the drum head where each tension rod crosses over. Now the head fits on easily.

Thanks dboomer. The problem is with the batter side bass drum head. Because the head is 1/4" larger than the drum and the wood hoop is also larger (probably a replacement then) the angle to get the T-rods into the lugs and get the claws over the hoop is too steep. The tapering of the drum doesn't help either. It came with 2 wood hoops and the other is so mis-shapen from the pressure of the T-rods and claws pulling outwards that is wrecked. I'm not sure if this is the original hoop either.

So I'm thinking spacers under the lugs is the best bet. I'll have to make them.

Glenn, thanks for the encouraging words, I needed that. The correct tom will be difficult to find, especially in the same wrap. I may look for an old Star tom with the staggered tear drop lugs (unfortunely I sold the drum pictured) and make some sort of replica. It won't be conical but the lugs a very similar and i have the Trixon mounts that could go on. Obviously there will be a wrap issue though. We'll see.

Sort of got this finished. Just need a piece of wrap to cover the plugs in the bass drum. And the eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed the cymbal arm is in fact a floor tom leg with the correct top part fitted

I would suggest plugs and then a trip to Michael's (craft shop) as they have all kinds of colorful foil, Mylar, PVC mirror material and other items that might serve as a suitable filler.

I never knew that Trixon included a Pratt style muffler.

Also, I have always wondered how they wrapped those drums on a compound curve.

Really cool project.

Wow~! Andrew VERY nice!! I see you had some good luck finding a mounted tom. Congrats they look fantastic!! You work fast too. I'm still in the process of working on 2 kits here and I'm 2-3 years in on each. Laughing H

To me, these look s-t-u-n-n-i-n-g, period. Croc wrap is just out of this world, it makes me drool. Way to go man, fantastic job you did there. The matching tom was a stroke of luck, too... :) I remember reading another thread (in the U.S. drums section) about recreating wrap that is too damaged to keep - perhaps you could use that to cover the plugs, though they're not exactly visible.

Another great set saved... :)

Alex

Wow! Nice work on that. Can't believe you found a matching tom so quickly,

Great luck.

yes i did get lucky finding the tom, but you make your own luck as they say. I posted my predicament on Dave's (Diamond) Facebook page and a chap in Germany tipped me off on a later model tom with the rectangular lugs for sale there. Then a good bloke in Sweden said he had the correct era tom and would trade it for the later model one. Then Trixon guru Ingo offered to purchase the tom for me and got the seller to ship it to Sweden. Then Joacim shipped me his one as well as a tom arm. Sounds complicated but it went very smoothly. Not cheap though, of course. Ingo has also offered to send me a small piece of the correct wrap to patch the holes. So that will improve it even more. Here's what it looks like now.

Another update. The original owner of this kit sent me some photos of the kit in action. This one is at a Sydney Leagues club in Australia circa 1965 where they were known as the Kiwi Four and later Johnny Devlin's Devils (he was a real star back then). Around this time the snare was run over in a car park while waiting to be loaded into his car. The hardware was left behind after a gig and never seen again. It's had a rock and roll life but it survives.

the geometric object is a frustum, the wrap would be like taking a piece from concentric circles and then joining it back together

Trixon applied the wrap in two equal sheets/halves with a slight overlap - probably easier to handle that way

(I had to figger this same sort of thing out with stone coping once ... that was fun NOT!)