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Speed King bearings
To further beat the dead horse, attached is a page from a Ludwig catalog that another VDF member posted. I previously never saw the remedy posed in t...
4 years agoSpeed King bearings
Ha! Leedybdp is gonna love this one! :-) That "knuckle scratch" on the batter head is caused by using a 1970s (or later) SK on an earlier bass dr...
4 years agoSpeed King bearings
Yeah, Gerard...I agree with OddBall. Your SK is definitely in need of an overhaul. I'm betting the spring channels (within the "goal posts") are com...
4 years agoThis is the Display Your Rogers Drums Thread
Interesting discussion. I too have never understood (or heard?) a need for those modern tom mounting systems that are designed to improve the resonan...
4 years agoSpeed King bearings
Yeah Oddball, to each his own, on those SKs - love 'em or hate 'em! I'm not familiar with your SK's "click" sound. I've never heard that before. Th...
4 years agoSpeed King bearings
Hey, that's OK Leedybdp! If everyone played Ludwig drums with Speedkings, it would be an extremely boring Drum World indeed. Being the Retro that I...
4 years agoSpeed King bearings
A plug for Vincent Leef, who bought the Speed King tune-up business from that Jesse fellow (I forget his last name). Vincent makes minor changes in t...
4 years agoSpeed King bearings
And....I forgot to mention, that pedal is from the mid-70s or later. The "spacer/support tab" at the bottom front of the "goal posts" - that abut the...
4 years agoSpeed King bearings
Yeah, they're the real deal. Soak them overnight in a jar with mineral spirits and get all the dried gunk out of them, until they spin fast. Rub d...
4 years agoSuper-Sensitive Snare Wires
See photo. Snare wires on the left with the longer/taller mount are for SS thru 1968. The wires on the right with the shorter/wider mount are for 19...
4 years agoJim Petty, JP2 Creations - is he still around?
Say guys, On August 10th, I mailed a check to Jim Petty at JP2 Creations for a long Ludwig hi-hat rod. As of today, the check still hasn't been depo...
4 years ago70's Ludwig Super Sensitive Black Beauty - Need SS mechanism
And as Mark mentioned above in regards to the snare-side head, the Ludwig part number is C1114. I dunno if Ludwig has more than one type of snare-sid...
4 years agoWhere is everyone?
A related discussion...I wonder what the future holds for vintage drum collecting. Will we go the way of coin and stamp collecting that our parent's g...
4 years agoNice Sounding Rogers Drums
"Fever" - That is an amazing performance by the drummer! And those drums sound great! I am not a hand percussionist - I refuse to buy a cajon. But...
4 years agoCitrus Mod: now you see it, now you don't
First photo is the original ebay feed I received via email yesterday morning. And the second photo is the email I received from ebay a couple hours...
4 years ago