I thought the same thing as Mike. Maybe you can put a stop under the mount so it doesn't fall downward. More of a pain because you would have to take the stop of each time you took the drum off but would stop accidental slipping off.

Wayne

Well, you have to take the L-arm, still attached to the tom, laterally out of the tilter at the top of the link anyway, to clear the bass drum shell, so the stop could remain in place on the L-arm [attached pic shows spade instead of L-arm]. I think this would be the case even with a longer link.

My L-arm pictured was pretty old, worn knurling, but never slipped. I did snug it to the tom with a wrench though [not reef].

I wish a physicist would chime in and explain the difference in torque/leverage between the up vs down mounting we are talking about here. It makes sense to me in my head but I can't articulate it - something about the weight of the tom being above the tilter and more toward the center of the bass drum [up], as opposed to floating off to the side and below the tilter....yeah I can't articulate it. :)

Mitch

To continue on this phenomenon [or illusion lol], it seems to me that a drum on a snare stand will produce more sustain if the stand is angled "underhand" [pic 1] than it will with the stand angled "overhand" [pic 2]. I think it's either the exact same physics as with the rail mount, or there's nothing to any of this at all. :)

Mitch

Somebody throw Mitch a Fork..!

He's done..Hahahahahahahahaha

Kelly.

If you throw the fork underhand, it will produce a more sustained tone on impact...

Hahahaha.

If I threw it underhand yr nutZ would hurt....lolol

Talk soon.

Kelly.

This sounds like the perfect use case for an INDe mount.