I can vouch for the condition of these parts "before" as I had the Clubbies for a brief time prior to turning them over to John. Dirty, some rust and in each groove in the lugs there was fluorescent orange paint! Apparently back in the black light heyday the owner sprayed the hardware so it would glow, who ever decided to eventually remove it wasn't very meticulous, leaving plenty of traces of paint in hard to reach areas!

During our last visit John mentioned getting a tumbler which gave me an immediate "slap in the forhead-duh" moment. I've had one of these things for 15 yrs to clean brass cases and it never occurred to me to use it on drum hardware. When I thought about the amount of time I recently spent wire brushing threads and standing at a buffing wheel I felt sick.

The parts look great John, see ya' soon.

Update: Purdie Shuffle thanks again as I have never saved so much time by using one of these. I get around 5 plus runs on the media just by adding more Maguires #2 fine cut liquid buffing compound, along with liquid car wax to the batches as the media breaks down some. This really seems to lengthen the life of the media. I have turned this on to several other of my rehab drum buddies here in Minneapolis and they also just love it. My local vintage drum shop guy wants me to start doing more stuff for him after seeing the before and after items I have done. I think one place it really works well for is tension rods, washers and bass drum claws. Also I just finished up my recently acquired 1948 Radio King snare and used it on the nickle over brass and it really did a nice job with very little run time.

Thanks again for this great time saving hint as my rehab time on drum sets has been cut in 1/2 to 3/4's of what it used to take.

The down side is now I have to buy more sets to add to my collection as I am running out of stuff to work on!

nopork - Yowza! Best thing to come along since sliced bread! I can't tell you how many hours of tedious labor this thing has saved me in just the short time I've owned it. If you're like me and you refurbish 4 - 6 kits a year, it's a must-have in the tool arsenal.

Glad to hear it's working as well for you as it has for me. Great tool! IT WORKS!

John

PS - I'll try your tip for extending the life of the media!

Sit back and drink beer while it does the work! Everyone should have one.

I wonder if you could seal parts in a bag with the polishing and cleaning stuff and toss them in the clothes dryer for a couple cycles... is that crazy??

Best item to Clean rusty parts put in CLR over night they come out like new

These units vibrate at a remarkably fast rate, the parts aren't being slowly tumbled and tossed like they would in a dryer. A washer rattling away on spin cycle would be closer to what this unit does than a dryer. Cleaver idea, I just don't think it would work.

John

I like the way you think!!!

Cheers!

I agree. I'll have a beer....

I have soaked bike parts in citric acid powder for years.

I have done several batches of drum parts.

It's great at removing the rust.

It just doesn't polish for you. LoLoLoLo

So between drum parts and bike parts one of these might be a good idea. :cool: