I pulled this out of an outside garage that looked like an urban barn. It's a 20" Star made BD with a Pearl hex mount (badly) installed. Not sure if the black wrap is a re-wrap or not, looks terrible anyway.
Oh man, I dont even know what to do with this thing. This may be totally unsalvageable. I've never seen a worse bearing edge, and the shell is a thin 3 ply, so the damage is that much more severe. The re-ring is long gone. I may just have to strip this thing for the lugs and t-rods. Forget about an orphan, this is an abuse survivor! The one hoop is missing the inlay but the previous owner oh-so-cleverly used electrical tape as an inlay (that's gonna be fun to clean up!) And I'm just about sure this thing is out of round.
Missing 2 lugs, only has 5 t-rods. Surprisingly, the batter edge is in pretty good shape and the lugs, while dirty as hell, dont seem to have any real pitting, so they should clean up pretty nicely. The cymbal mount, while missing the wing screw, seems good.
There might be a guy in town who could get me a re-ring, and I'd have to pull off some kind of miracle on the edge with Plastic Wood (and I hate that stuff) but I guess this thing could possibly be brought back from the dead... What do you guys think? Got nothing invested here, nothing to lose. Anyone ever repair a bearing edge this chewed up?
Maybe sometimes we dont choose our projects, our projects choose us...