Hello,
A mate has one of the extremely rare (and beautiful) Eugene Geisler/ Slingerland snare drums with Aluminium shell. As only one of the tension screws (and it's counter part for the hoop) was missing and apparently impossible to find a spare part, I offered to make one replica in fancywork.
I will report the progress here to encourage others doing the same, in order to save similar unique drums and transfer them back to complete and playable condition.
1st photo:
This is the snare drum with the missing tension screw and 'nut' part at the bottom hoop.
2nd photo:
Original parts on the left and the raw material (a former counterweight from a cymbal boom arm and a tension part of a German drum used in playgroups) on the right side. From both I will carve out the replica parts.
3rd photo:
First steps: the original screw has (I assume) 3/16" BSW thread. But I have only metric possibilities, so M5 was the next possible thread size for me, which I have cut out from the tension part, and I also cut out a slice of the boomweight, foreseen for the 'nut'.
Next steps will follow next week.
Ralf
