Thought I'd take a stab at my first restoration project.
Waiting a few days for a set of 12'' pre-int heads from the east coast so I decided to attempt to clean up the chrome which is fairly pitted. A few pits here and there I don't mind but these were a bit much for my taste.
Started off with the classic dawn bath mixed with a bit of LA's Totally Awesome.
Some before pics:
Dawn bath on the tom lugs and hardware is still in progress, but I hurried the hoops a long last night with some quad ought steel wool and wow, took off a lot of the pits and polished up the die cast rims nicely and made no scratches:
BS! ..... :-)
If you put that under a 2000 power microscope,you will detect fine scratches!>>You ruined it!
That was a joke...BTW
Boy Blair you got me!
Wow... rims came up great .. Premier did nice work.. so do you..
Blair got me too.. nearly spilled the coffee..
Cheers
John
BS! ..... :-)If you put that under a 2000 power microscope,you will detect fine scratches!>>You ruined it!
:D
I figured you were joking, just couldn't reply earlier :)
The steel wool was actually some 00 :o
Thought I was using 0000, but will take extra care not to mix up my steel wools for the lug casings etc :D
Continuing on...
Cleaned up the 12'' tom and lugs and the 16'' leg mounts and legs and did the Novus 1 and 2 treatments to the shells:
Serial numbers on badges?..Beech inside?
Pre-int heads came today, ordered on Monday, so that was blazing fast!
Word to the wise - the Remo collar fits a bit out of the rim depth wise, but the heads fit fine. Checked against another Premier tom I have that still has the original Everplay resonant, and Premier brand heads have a much shallower collar.
The kit is missing 1 rubber foot for the floor tom legs, 2 bass drum claws, 1 bass drum rod and 8 tension washers. Had to substitute with 2 similar claws and 1 American style T rod for the bass drum and scrounged up some not very correct tension screw washers.
Saving the bass drum for last.
I'm really liking how this $126 drum set is turning out so far:
