[Attachment: 83782]You might notice a tiny bit of beeswax residue when yesterday after taking head off I made a rushed attempt to apply some. I ended up trying to get it off. Iam a beginner with this sort of stuff. This shot shows the main bit of ' separation' that I'm talking about.

[Attachment: 83784]picture of reso side. Sorry about my primitive computer skills, it's trial and error. The batter side is in much better condition though.

[Attachment: 83785] Front pic of the whole drum the drum looks white in these shots, it's more like a greeny yellow in real life. (Differences with cameras) .The niles serial number is 5604.

[Attachment: 83789] one pic of the strainer. The only one unoriginal tension rod is showing there!- Because I've noticed that it has a longer thread than the others. Im realy getting down to it now comrades.Yes Sir

[Attachment: 83790] That ding in the hoop was there when I got the drum. The top hoop also has a small one. It would be great to be able to hammer it out but don't think I will try to do it, plus these sticksaver ones have the awkward lip bit. It does take me a while to get all the lugs to sound somewhere near even, and then it realy sings.

[Attachment: 83791] At last can anyone tell me if it is a solid shell or 3 ply? Also does anyone know how I can get a screw for the buttplate, iam worried that there might be different screw threads over here. Imperial/ metric .The thread has Nearly gone where I have to tighten with screwdriver, bad problem this. How am I going to tighten the snares? What I mean is the slot on the screw- where the screwdriver goes has deteriated. Any and all input/advise or recommendations on fixing the little split on re-ring would be realy appreciated. I've waited a full year to be able to just get pics on here. Again sincere apologies for still not knowing how to get more of the pics all together. It lets me upload 5 but only 1 gets on I think it's either the first or or last of these that loads onto the page. Just one more thing, these drums are definately very nice sounding when dailed in correctly. Love it.

That looks like a one ply shell to me. Nice snare! If it were mine I'd want to address the re-ring separation. It can only get worse over time. To start with I'd squeeze where it's separated and see if that action makes it open up some other place along the edge. I see this a lot and it's hard to glue these back down without it popping out some other place. With gaps that large my feeling is that you just want to stop it from getting worse by essentially freezing it in place with glue. I use a two part epoxy in larger gaps like that and diluted yellow wood glue for smaller gaps. You can work the epoxy into the crack with stiff paper and let it set up nice and hard. Work it into the cracks and then use your finer to wipe off any excess and keep it neat. Keep it off the actual edge so you don't need to rework it. Also, look at the re-ring on the inner side. There's often a bigger gap here and you should ideally work some epoxy into any large cracks there as well. This is just my opinion so decide what works best for you.

Steve

Thanks much appreciated. I've had no experience of this but the gap to me seems pretty thin to get glue in I've heard on here about using some sort of syringe. I suppose epoxy is some other type of glue to use? So I suppose I should when ready go to a store and get a couple of clamps and this stuff, get the stuff in there and clamp it up with some 'pading on' the drum and leave for 24 hours.

Do you have a good drum shop /music store that you can have the repair work performed?

Unless you're familiar with woodworking I'd take it to someone who has the skills you need. It's too nice a drum to take a chance on if you're not 100% sure of yourself.

Steve