I have many time's in the pass..DOHDOH...In fact i just restored a ludwig set about 6 months ago for a guy 12,13,16,toms.22 bass,14 snare and yes every T-rod on the set all 80 of them had the tape on them...Why???? Mikey

I have NEVER seen that before.........

Must be so you don't over tighten the rods ,right?

Makes sense to me!electricit

Yes this was an old trick from back in the day, to keep the t-rods from loosing while playing, but it is a major pain to remove the Teflon tape from each t-rods, just think if they have glue on that tape?

I would need help from Jack. . .. as in Daniels. . . He has a way of just making everything. . . . . . ok and when blended with fine southern comfort???? Everything is beautiful. . . Always appreciate your work 2K. . ..

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A little Peruvian Marching Powder probably wouldn't hurt either.......if you are into that sort of thing............I'm not..............

I don't see how you guys don't put teflon tape on yours....mine leaks water non-stop if I don't.

Removing the tape seems like one of those projects that makes you want to throw them away and find new ones!

Ha, haaaa! That's good.

I also like the over-tighten the t-rods caution, BND. VM2K, I thought about possibly one loosening, but the whole kit? And, happily, no glue (or, thankfully, pipe-dope) was used in the mucking up of the t-rods. On a positive note, the t-rod threads are mint. Like they were in a time-capsule.

Thanks for the replies, guys. Good info and pearls, as always.

B

[COLOR="Purple"]It's used in woodwind repair to make pivot screws on clarinets and saxes not click and rattle when inserted into their key barrels.

It works real well in that application.

I am guessing the previous owner was having rattling problems (in which case, this wouldn't have helped since he/she misidentified the culprit and it was probably the springs or such) or just though that the stuff would keep the drum tuned at super-high tension, longer.

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PTFE (Teflon) has one of the lowest coefficients of friction against any solid and won't evaporate like other lubricants, but more importantly it's the only known surface to which a gecko can't stick (according to the gecko adhesion study anyway!). So it makes perfectly good sense to use it in that application.... or seems better than the Ludwig grease balls/dabs to me???