Another nice rehab job!

Congratulations nopork, another Camco set saved !

All drums seem to match perfectly.

I bet they sound phenomenal.

Beautiful looking kit !!

Very nice....the 14" floor doesn't looks as pristine as those you have there but it's an LA Camco 14" floor and how often do they come up? With some work you can probably make it shine up pretty nicely. Having trouble re-sizing the photo otherwise I'd post it here.

How do you "tumble" hardware? I just washed then polished....

As far as the floor tom looking good, this 16" was pretty tough looking also before I started on it, so I am not the least bit worried about the one from you looking at the photos you sent me. Besides it is going to be used with the 12" and the bass as my gigging kit and will get some abuse anyway.

I use a vibratory bowl tumbler like Purdie Shuffle uses(there is a thread on this forum about it). It is the Harbor Freight 18 lb. model and uses fine walnut shells for the media. I then add some fine cut liquid automotive finishing compound(3M Pefect III or Wizards Final Finish brands) and some regular liquid car wax and tumble the parts for around 2 hours or so. Usually they come out looking like new. Then hand polish with a coat of chrome polish and a micro fiber cloth. The tumbler really works great for rusty tension rods also. I have found that by adding the finishing compounds and wax it lengthens the life of the polishing media many times over. I can be sanding, buffing and polishing shells while the hardware is tumbling. Makes rehabbing so much easier and faster and this year I have done around 10 + kits already, for myself and others. Rehabbing gives me something to do, that I enjoy, during retirement.

*no-pork - (*I'll have to ask you privately sometime about the origin of that handle! lol)

Your LA Camco kit is a stunner! I did the same thing several years back. It took me two years to assemble a set of Oaklawn orphan shells along with all the necessary hardware. I ended up with the best sounding set of drums I have ever played. Camco drums just sing.

You did a great job. Excellent save. Enjoy them for many years to come.

John

PS - Aren't those damn tumblers from Harbor Freight just the t-i-t-s? I so wish I had discovered tumblers years ago. So many hours, so much life wasted soaking and polishing, wish I had all that time back! Oh well, no matter, I have one now and it has freed me up to do other things while the parts are now cleaning themselves! Walking

I am going to have to get on this "tumbler" wagon. Sounds like the $h*t to me! I hate cleaning and polishing rusty hardware.

By the way, nopork, nice tubs! Sure will be extra sweet once you add the 14" floor tom. Nice job.

Stellar job on the restoration! They look Fantastic! That's the really nice thing about L.A. era Camcos, All the shells were top shelf premium, or the best that Keller made, kinda like having a Maple Dynasonics for each and every drum shell.Cool1

Look great.

Nice job.

I love it when some one saves a set of Camcos