Greeting,folks.I am looking for 6MM diameter tension rods to complete a restoration-the set was purchased from Daddy's Junky Music online with no bottom rims or rods.
20 6MM 1 3/4" tom rods
1 6MM 2" snare rod
8 6MM 4 1/2" T-rods.
Someone played a cruel joke-these rods are made of unobtanium.Calls to various drum stores and even Yamaha have elicited responses of....
HUH? 6MM long? Do you mean like DW/Pacific?
NO-If you hold these next to a 12/24 rod,the diameter is VERY slightly larger and,of course with metric thread pitch.If you thread the 6MM rod into a 12/24 lug,it goes in 1/2 thred and stops-jams.Conversely,a 12/24 rod threads into a 6MM lug too loosely to grab.
Why,you may ask,even bother with crappy mahogany 9-ply student model bastard-child drums?Well-BECAUSE!
P.S.-I am saying 6MM because the threadad rod from the hardware store says 6MM X 1MM