Hi folks,
Can anyone identify the approximate year of this Rogers kit?
What confuses me is that the tom holder has the "R" on it, while utilizing the swivomatic attachments to the toms. Is this normal or has it been modified? Owner claims its a 60's era kit.
In my limited knowledge of Rogers, I thought that anything stamped with an "R" used the memriloc style not swivo.
Cheers, Phil
I've seen this online ...it's in Ontario...I think...
It's a late 70s kit...
Bop iT / Til U Drop iT.Sorry....
Early 70s....
Get a pic of the paper tags inside....
Most likely 1973/76 series...
Bop iT / Til U Drop iT.Powertone model and Fullerton paper badge is late 60's early 70's. If present are the small paper tags with 9/72 on them would make them 1976 transition year set to memriloc hardware. If the bass mount is original and no extra holes, likely mid 70 and not 60's. Check bass mount for clean hole with no splintering, full length tube in bass drum with bolted rubber piece thru the bottom of the shell to hold the tube in place.
Other possibility is virgin bass drum from double bass setup and 1976+ memriloc tom mount added to the drumset. Using the swivomatic adapters on the swivomatic tom arms to fit memriloc mount I'm thinking as well.
Looks like cast collets and not machined collets. Again, early - mid 70's indication.
How are those Swivo tom arms attached to the BD post?
Rogers made adapters that were basically aluminum sleeves that the swivo arms fit into and were held with set screws. The OD of the sleeve fit the Memri-Loc hardware.
Is that what's in use here?
It looks like someone added a Big R BD post to a Swivo kit.
Need pics or description of interior paint, hardware, and tags to get a better idea of age due to mixed mount hardware.
Hugh
swivo spurs give it away someone added the bass drum mount looks like a 69 or 70's kit depending on the tags will say holiday if 69 and powertone if later..
How are those Swivo tom arms attached to the BD post? Rogers made adapters that were basically aluminum sleeves that the swivo arms fit into and were held with set screws. The OD of the sleeve fit the Memri-Loc hardware. Is that what's in use here? It looks like someone added a Big R BD post to a Swivo kit.
I think this is correct. The kit has script badges and has Swivo spurs on the bass. That Memriloc tom mount/post was added later, and it probably does have the adapters to put the Swivo arms into the M/L post.
Actually that works out well: only the bass was drilled, not the toms. An original Londoner bass could be found and the other one sold off. The kit would then be correct...
That Swivo bass is an odd duck. Note the cymbal collet. It's the right-angle, straight collect; not the angled collet that would normally be mounted for the cymbal hex arm. Was it added later? And if the cymbal arm collet is original (unlikely given it's positioning), there wouldn't have been a tom receiver collet mounted top center (Swivo or Memriloc). There are no holes around the Memriloc receiver from a previous Swivo mount, so maybe this was originally a virgin bass from a double-bass set. Some pics of the interior may solve the mystery.
Mike
