Thanks so much Mark! And the drums are in pieces right now, but pics are coming soon, I promise!
Yes, I'm sending out a spare bracket that's just been sitting in a box for years! The cosmetics are fair, but the collet is perfect and the bracket isn't bent, so it should work perfectly.Now, let's see some pictures of your drums! They appear to be green sparkle? Just don't see many Rogers drums in green!-Mark
I'd be very surprised to find the plate wasn't bent. Even the reflection of things around it is wavy to an unusual extent. That part Mark is sending should fix you up nicely.
Yeah, that seems to be the consensus, and certainly is the most logical explanation for the problem. The more I look at it, I'm starting to think it might have been somehow caused by a lot of pressure being put on the actual spur while it was in place, and when it didn't bend the plate itself absorbed the stress and gave a little. Would explain why there doesn't appear to be any damage to the area around the plate, either inside or outside the drum. Who knows? Either way, iI can't wait to put the new piece on!
Delorso received my leg bracket and it fixed his issue. Yay!! I've resized the pictures he sent me and you can clearly see that the original bracket is bent. My bracket isn't cosmetically nice, but works perfectly. I also included pictures of a 1967 bass drum I had, showing how Rogers would cut the washer that was at the reinforcing ring. His original washer was bent as well.
-Mark
That Mark is a classy man! A true gem to this forum!
This has been a great solution to a bothersome problem. I had forgotten about the cut washer preventative fix that the Rogers factory used for the bass drum spur collet plates.
That plate really was warped. Good save Mark!
The washer thing is an interesting topic by itself. What always puzzled me is that they would typically have set up a jig. That would ensure all the hardware was aligned so as to avoid the problem. Given that, how did they end up with the problem?
Maybe it's what Bobby at the Drum Farm used to say - new guy on Monday morning.
Joe Thompson was such a hardware designing genius that it would not surprise me if he designed the cut washer application as a means to stabilize the collet plates for bass drum spurs.
For interest's sake - the plate was bent, the carriage bolt was thus "raised" resulting in contact with the collet, BUT there is no damage to the shell from the carriage bolt "pulling through". Interesting...
