{"id":1210,"date":"2016-10-21T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2016-10-21T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:14:13","slug":"extreme-restoring-of-an-almost-lost-sdsv-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Extreme restoring of an almost lost SDSV pad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I got a request by a Simmons mate. He purchased a set of SDSV pads and requested some restauration hints. I offered him to send the pads for a more precise analysis. But what I got was more a bio hazard rather than a set of SDSV pads. Ready for the junk yard? Never!<\/p>\n

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\nMy first impression was that the pads did not look that bad, but because they simply didn’t work I had to open them. What I found was a bacterial disaster. <\/i><\/p>\n

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\nOnly open with breathing mask!<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nTransducers after 30 years in the fenland<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nspare parts and counterpoisons<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nRemoving the original lacquer with circuit board cleaner (looses the lacquer but does not damage the acryl!)<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThis might work as a salad bowl, too<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nFighting the mould<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nDrying and sanding<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nPolished rims<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nStainless steel screws for another 30 years<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nTest lacquering on an acrylic plate. Do not use Polyurethan lacquer! It will damage the shell! Actually I used paint for model-making.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nWater based Acryl lacquer<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nOnce I was a piezo<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe shell is ready<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nMy brother Mr. Perfect: I collect drums, he collects tools \ud83d\ude00<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe mounting socket: Before and after<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nCutting new playing surfaces. Today we choose … black<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nRubber seals from the plumber department. And new stainless steel screws as well<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe mounting socket screwed to the plywood board<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nNew 35mm piezo, new XLR socket<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nAssembling the shell to the board<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThis pad was born in 1983. 007’s Octopussy as well<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe PVC plate is being glued to the board. Virginally shining under the protection foil<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nMounting the rim – checked<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nsweet \ud83d\ude42 <\/i><\/p>\n

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\nBeta Testing<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nTo be honest: I am sure that it didn’t look much better 30 years ago in the retailers showroom<\/i><\/p>\n

It was more effort than it might look like. And this is the first pad of a total of five. Still it was worth doing that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I got a request by a Simmons mate. He purchased a set of SDSV pads and requested some restauration hints. I offered him to send the pads for a more precise analysis. But what I got was more a bio hazard rather than a set of SDSV pads. Ready for the junk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pads","category-report","category-tipsn-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}