Did you try to adjust the "lever" system.It has two, kind of, flat little cilinders with a little srew on top.These must be in the right position, right and left side the same.It's a little hard to explain, but if you turn the little screws loose, you'll see what i mean.
I think I know what you mean, but it doesn't help. It almost seems as if the strainer mechanism was mounted too close to snare side - just a 0.25" higher would help.
That strainer goes on deep shells too. The cam is what adjusts the fix you are looking for. That is if I understand you correctly.
Why does your spring cross the cam plate ?
In your last fix pic it looks like the slide block is hitting the hoop. That would stop it from traveling any further. Did you leave out a spacer ?
I`m just throwing Q`s at ya that I see in the pics.
My spring crosses the cam plate because I didn't have the original short spring. I had to use a longer one and to mount it to the other side of the cam so it would tighten.
The whole mechanism works, when I turn the lever, the cam slides, and grabs onto the central rod, just as it is shown in this video
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T9ZaxW__rhU"]Sonor's parallel strainer 1964 - YouTube[/ame]
but the strainer just doesn't touch the head, however I tqueak those flat-headed screw on both ends of strainer mechanism. Both butts are in their final position, everything obviously works, except it doesn't.
EDIT: The slide block isn't hitting the hoop. Just a wrong camera angle, I guess.
On the inside square tube with the travel slot cut in it, that looks like a separate plate with the mount holes at right angles. Does that flip around and would it give more travel space ?
Have the edges been re-cut ?
If you loosen all four mount screws, will the whole thing(bottom plate) slide up towards the batter head ?
I dismantled one end of the mechanism. There's no way I could move it more towards the batter head.
Im slowly starting to lean towards the possibility that edges have been re-cut. This should be a 5" drum, but it's more like 4.5". Edges look great, though, snare beds are there, and everything!
They`ve been known to hit or miss in depth, henk would know the average, but it is a sign of woodworked.
So then the only possibility of making it work is moving the mechanism, thus drilling new holes and longer cut-outs for the sliding ends.
