Jerry. Welcome to the VDF more like 1982-83 if memory serves me before they moved to Monroe NC, the rivet kits are a hard sale due to that fact, but are great sounding drums, does your bass drum have two sets of spurs?

hi jerry welcome to vdf. my guess with out serial numbers 79/80 if you post pics with serial numbers you will get results faster. it sound like you might have a real decent set of luds

Hello and thanks,

The SN's start off 204......

I'm away from the kit so i only remember the first three digits on the badges.

Jerry

just like i thought 79/80 enjoy kit i hear good things about them

The bass drum has two heavy duty spurs and the 12 and 13 toms have the large lugs on them.

I guess there considered the "BIG BEAT" kit?

There's only a little bit of shrinkage on the wraps.

Can the rivets be removed without doing any damage?

Jerry, unfortunately your looking at major work!!! there is a thread where this was done and the kit is now thermo-gloss, the threads here somewhere??

I guess I'm better off leaving them alone since there isn't that much shrinkage.

Thanks again

Jerry

I'm thinking of putting the silver dot heads back on the kit to make it look and sound original. Are the new sd heads any better then the old ones?

Does anyone out there use them?

Thanks,

Jerry