Removing Dents from Drum Heads
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- In this video, I show you how to remove dents from drum heads. If you play correctly, you should never have to do this, but sometimes you purchase something like this old Ludwig 359 pad that has been abused.
Please be very careful if you attempt this.
I’ve been doing this on any of my drum heads as long as since 1975 😊 I only use matches. With this torch it’s much easier. Thanks for sharing this trick with youngsters.
I remember in high school (back in the late 80s), we did this to some marching quad toms with regular lighters from underneath with the heads off the drum. I think the plastic was more brittle after our heat treatments, because they split in cold weather.
I also had good luck rotating the drum head about 2” above one of the electric hot plates of my kitchen stove. Mylar seems to go back to its original shape when heat is applied to it. Some regular 14” drum heads rotating them rim down over the hot plate started to tighten up from a lifeless sag in the middle to something like those self tuned drum heads which were around back in the day for a while.
Be careful doing that with this type of head as it is extremely thin.
Wow !!
Amazing Rick!
Thx
Excellent.
always used the cherry on the end of a cigarette but my smoking days are long gone.I tried this the other day but keeping it off the head looks like what I did wrong....space heater didn't work
Yeah we used to use a cigarette back in the early 70's. But as Rick eluded to, you are not playing correctly if you are denting heads. After 52 years, I haven't seen a head dent in decades. You know what I tried recently on drum heads just to clean them, Magic Eraser Sponges. They are sold in Super Markets or Mom & Pop Grocery stores and they work pretty good.
That´s a great tip Rick! I will try that out carefully with my old Ludwig Pad which I`ve bought that has some dents...
They are all gone - it works - Thank´s again and best whishes from Berlin/Germany
Please be very, very careful.
You don't want to ruin that head since they are impossible to find.
I just use a heat gun. Much less risk of setting your drum head on fire. A magic eraser under warm water will clean off the grime without removing too much of the coating.
Please be careful with a heat gun as this type of head is very thin and will melt easily. A heat gun works fine with thicker heads.
How about a hairdryer on super hot 😮
That won't work
Not hot enough.
Why will a "regular head" not work? (PS, try heat gun or blow dryer)
This type of head is very thin. A heat gun can melt it before you realize it.
A blow dryer does not create enough heat.
Tip of a burning cigarette does the trick as well :)))
Smoking is bad for you and those around you. As if you didn't know.
@@rickdior sure I agree. At the same time a cigarette takes out five minutes from your live (as some doctors say) but all day in a cubicle in an office - 8 hours :))) So let's keep drumming!