ChiaPet
08-07-2009, 04:45 AM
Recently, I managed to find a full set of drums being thrown away by a high school, so I picked it up!
First, I present to you, the snare line since those were the drums I worked on first.
What I did:
First I took off all the hardware, heads, snare guts, snare attachments and threw them in a corner. Secondly, I took all the drum hardware and I lined them up against my wall and I hosed them down with water and baked them out in the sun. It only took around 5-10 minutes for the hardware to dry. After that I lined the hardware up against the wall again and I begin to execute a firing squad upon the hardware. I retrofitted my garden hose with 4 bottles of Windex and I began to spray away. Then I took a hair-dryer and began to hand dry them myself and using a nice clean cloth afterwords to give the hardware that nice clean "chromey" look.
I threw away all the tops heads because they had no more life in them. I did manage to salvage the bottom heads though.
Oh, as for the drum shells? I personally cleaned them with Armor-All myself.
As for the carriers, when I first picked them up, they were in REALLY bad condition, scratches, nicks, dents, soda stains and little bits of gum. I took all the carriers apart and I cleaned all the carrier hardware with Windex and water. As for the fiberglass body, I polished the fiberglass with some cleaner that were used to clean rims on cars.
And now I present... THE CHIAS!
You water, you spray, they grow. :D:D:p;):rolleyes:
First, I present to you, the snare line since those were the drums I worked on first.
What I did:
First I took off all the hardware, heads, snare guts, snare attachments and threw them in a corner. Secondly, I took all the drum hardware and I lined them up against my wall and I hosed them down with water and baked them out in the sun. It only took around 5-10 minutes for the hardware to dry. After that I lined the hardware up against the wall again and I begin to execute a firing squad upon the hardware. I retrofitted my garden hose with 4 bottles of Windex and I began to spray away. Then I took a hair-dryer and began to hand dry them myself and using a nice clean cloth afterwords to give the hardware that nice clean "chromey" look.
I threw away all the tops heads because they had no more life in them. I did manage to salvage the bottom heads though.
Oh, as for the drum shells? I personally cleaned them with Armor-All myself.
As for the carriers, when I first picked them up, they were in REALLY bad condition, scratches, nicks, dents, soda stains and little bits of gum. I took all the carriers apart and I cleaned all the carrier hardware with Windex and water. As for the fiberglass body, I polished the fiberglass with some cleaner that were used to clean rims on cars.
And now I present... THE CHIAS!
You water, you spray, they grow. :D:D:p;):rolleyes: