Well folks, I finally got my 66 Pearl kit completed. I went to adjust the tom rail, man it's hard to get it tight enough............SNAP! The carraige bolt snaps in half. Luckily, I found another one at work almost exactly the same size. Then,...........SNAP, spin, spin, spin.......the threads on the tom bracket are stripped. Off to Autozone for a Helicoil kit, which worked really well. I had to use the other two coils on the bass drum leg brackets as well.

Those consolettes are hard to adjust just right, but now if it will just stay put I do like the position it puts my tom in, way lower and off to the side than my newer Ludwig double tom mount would ever allow.

I'll post pictures of the completed kit tomorrow, I hope.