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Restoring a Trixon Speedfire + Luxus 200

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I've been wanting a red Vistalite since as long as I can remember but just before putting down the money, I changed my mind and started looking for a Trixon Speedfire kit. Being in a garage-punk band, this just seemed more right.

I pretty quickly dug up a Speedfire BD on the German local ebay (I'm in Denmark) and found a really cheap Luxus 200 set at a store 1 hour from my home. The Speedfire said "restored" and is the bigger version (27.5x21 with 11 lugs) but when I got I was not impressed with PO's handy skills. Coating was WMP put on top of the old coating with double sided tape :o/ The Luxus 200 set was from 2 different sets and was in really poor shape. Everything perfect for a restoration project.

At this point I've stripped the shells from the coating and started filling holes. The BD had a small dent that was evened out with steam (no, we're not having bass drum for dinner). Polishing hardware and waiting for coating that I think will be either turquoise sparkle or turquoise glitter.

One screw snapped when taking off the lugs so that had to be fixed.

More pictures to come

Posted on 8 years ago
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More images. Cleaning the shells

Posted on 8 years ago
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Polishing lugs

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Posted on 8 years ago
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Fixing dent in the Speedfire BD

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Posted on 8 years ago
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Cool project, please keep us updated.

I'm curious about the reasoning behind your idea that a speedfire would fit a garage rock band (not that I think wouldn't but it's not the first kit I would think of).

Vintage and custom drum projects:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php...2305272732%3A6
Posted on 8 years ago
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jebon!

Excellent restoration skills! Your kit is going to look great, but, like mentioned by bartw, I'm also curious about your reasoning behind this kit for a garage-punk band!

-Mark

Posted on 8 years ago
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From idrum4fun

jebon!Excellent restoration skills! Your kit is going to look great, but, like mentioned by bartw, I'm also curious about your reasoning behind this kit for a garage-punk band!-Mark

Trixon Speedfire = cool

Garage-punk = cool

I guess that's it band3

Posted on 8 years ago
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From jebon

Trixon Speedfire = coolGarage-punk = coolI guess that's it band3

Works for me

Andrew

Golden Curtain
www.myspace.com/garagelandnz
Posted on 8 years ago
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Excellent.

Vintage and custom drum projects:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php...2305272732%3A6
Posted on 8 years ago
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In the process of cleaning the hoops from a bad paint job and the WMP wrap being put on with contact glue. Not my favorite part of this restoration. Turns out PO didn't molest the drum. The guy before him did.

The hoops will be either gloss grey or metallic grey as originally.

Another funny thing: When organizing the hardware I counted 22 bd lugs. I thought that was odd, but I knew it was the large version so I thought they probably have 11 lugs front and batter. I start googling and I cannot find one Speedfire with 11 lugs. And let me just stress. The lugs are evenly placed around the drum and no holes have been patched up. The drum was born with 11 lugs. I contact English and German Trixon gurus Dave Prince and Ingo Winterberg and they have never come across a Speedfire with 11 lugs. A Speedfire is special, but I didn't know this one was that special. All good.

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