Hello!
I've just re-acquired my Ludwig (Super Classic I think, and the serial number on the bass drum is 1777607) kit after nine years band use (I was the vocalist, but my drum kit was being used) and am embarking on some much needed (understatement!) maintenance. I never really looked at the kit during that time and there were various bits of gaffa tape put into play on different parts as temporary solutions which ended up being semi-permanent (their permanence ending now).
I'm starting off by tackling the bass drum pedal and the tom mount consolette. The consolette is the worst off part of the kit, and was held on by three disparate looking fixings and a bit of gaffa. The hex nuts (longer one excluded) are very worn away and gaffa tape was employed there also. I've just laid all of the bits out on the sideboard and photographed it and it looks a lot worse in a photo than it does to the naked eye even. I'm not going to scrap it though, I'm going to clean it up.
Which brings me to the reason for my post. I've looked on the PDF on the Ludwig web site which has parts lists for many of their products new and old, but not this rail consolette. Various googling, and much lurking on this forum over the past few days similarly hasn't been definitive in informing me what parts I might be missing, or which parts of mine may be non original.
I have the two long fixing plates, but they have different fixing hole shapes. On other photo's I've seen round fixing plates like big washers also, but I don't have these. The fixings which hold the consolette on to the bass drum are all different, I don't know if any of them are original. I'll need to get two replacement hex nuts and a key (I've found some online sellers for those).
So I've taken a photo of my consolette and hopefully someone can detail what bits are missing or non original. I'd quite like to restore it to as near to how it should be as possible. Any tips on cleaning up the various bits would be appreciated. I have a can of spray foam heavy duty degreaser, WD40, 3in1 oil, and a tube of Autosol chrome/metal cleaner at my disposal at present.
More posts and photo's will be forthcoming as I work my way round the rest of the kit. I thought it better to separate them into specific threads to aid future forum searchers.
Many thanks!
Richard.