Well some progress today on the home made clamshell strainer. My son gave me a sweet piece of hard rock maple and fashioned a strainer body. Perfect for the body and yes quite rock hard too LOL. As shown earlier I made the bracket body from a electrical outlet cover plate. It's almost the same gauge steel as the original. A vise, sawsall, bench grinder and wire wheel and the bracket it roughed out. My test template was from sheet aluminum and the actual piece came out pretty good. The steel bracket body will be covered with a piece of scrap WMP like the original rolling bomber brackets were. The wood body will be stained or maybe tung oil. Not sure. I still need to order the throw handle and bolt, nuts, spring, shell nut before I can finish up. I'm hoping Mr Petty has some of these on hand and I can get them soon. If not I'll hit the hardware store and see what I can find. We'll see. Once I have the strainer figured out and needed parts I'll drill the bracket and wood body. And use a dremel to cut in the notches for the throw handle. Then I'll final shape and sand the wood body and file the steel bracket edges smooth and put the WMP on it. Hopefully it'll look good but more important function as designed.
The bass and floor tom are finished. Waiting on a tom mount and I'm looking at the creme pearl wrap @ Drum Foundry to wrap the 13" tom.
I need to thank Lynn S and Jeff C for the pics and advice on the throw. I hope this thing works~!
Here's a few pics of where I am now.........More to come!!