You have to look at it like an old time autobody man....heat the wrap then quench it with a cool wet towel......heat and shrink....

I tried freezing spray and a microfiber cloth....the thing is that it is shrinking quite fast when it is heated. You can notice if looking at the wrap edge...more wood is showing up on the drum... : (

Because of this additional shrinking, the wrinkle is getting harder and harder to remove. It's been one day it's standing there, looking at me while I decide what to do.......

Removing the old wrap is really not all that hard. Just soften the glue with a hair dryer or a heat gun on low setting and pull off slowly...don't rip it off especially on drums with softer wood, you can pull some wood off too. The biggest job is taking the hardware off. The wrap will be fairly easy. Then clean up any large amounts of glue with solvent, a light sand and you're ready to re-wrap. It's much easier to detail the hardware with it off the drums. Re-assembly is fun as you see the kit come together. The result will be worth the effort.

SOLVED!

I used a tape called "filamentosa" down here. It's a thick packaging tape that has polyester or fiber glass strands on it. Not sure how they call it there.

Check the attached pictures. In the one with the tapes, the right side is a sliding drawer, so I could insert my leg between the shell and the drawer and force it strongly, tensioning the tapes and wrap while heating it. Used a polyester ("microfiber") rag to even the surface with my hands.

The wrap has a tendency of shrinking towards the middle of the shell. That could be seen in the parts I had tried to to the heating/freezing job before this method. The wrap edges near it were shorter, you could see more wood there, than in the rest.

So the tape is being used to force the wrap towards the shell edge while heating. This helped a LOT in having the bigger bubbles and even the sh*** I did on the first intervention to almost disappear. It's a pitty I heated too much on the first tries, which left at mark in the wrap (darker, like if someone cut the wrap). Well....

There are lots of different ways of doing it, I did the way I had on my mind at the moment (that includes my lazyness in building a rig for).

Well, I hope that can help someone else in the future.

Happy beatings... :)

Jeffo.

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The original bubble

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Fixing

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After

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After

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I was re-reading the thread...

I have searched many shops that carry wraps...know what is funny? CAN'T FIND even ONE metallic/solid color wrap!!! They were pearls, glasses, glitters, flakes, onyxes, flames, satins and so and so on....not a single metallic color... :(

Well...after fixing the bubbles and hardware the drum is ready for 12 years more...then I'll think about a new wrap for the next restoration... :))))

I'm really impressed!!! Great job and thanks for sharing, I'm sure this is one technique that will be used many times here over the years!

Allright, if that can help someone to remove a darn bubble off again, that makes me happy!

Stick it up! Excited

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Jeffo.

This cannot be done......I knew Walt Johnson who was the prez for Pearl US when they just got introd here...

The pearl is cheaper then the better lines....The material got stretched out...

Even if you could get it back together you would probably sacrfice the shine and color....

You could try a low temperature iron.....PUT several towels on the iron and alum foil on the pearl. NOTE...to use in very short segments

DO THIS KNOWING It will probably not help...and will probably ruin the drum..

Frankly...You can but the pearl from a NY company.....

Hello.

Did you see the pictures a few posts before? I managed to recover 90% of the original appearance. More than that on smaller areas. Used a weird-of-my-own technique that worked... : )

I believe that lonecomic does not read any of the bodies of the threads he responds to... just reads the opening post and posts from there... don't know why. I read this thread while it was in progress in August, and I will probably be trying your technique on a repair that I botched back in March.

Same scenario regarding the wrap shrinking on me during repair.

Thanks