Hey all! Long time no see! had some issues with my account, but those are fixed now. Recently went thrifting and found a vintage Mapex tom for 8 bucks! Snapped it up and brought it home to begin the cleanup.
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Sadly however upon inspection I discovered that one of the lugs wasn't attached properly.
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I took the drum apart to discover that the lug was unfortunately broken.
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I looked around to find a vintage lug to match but it seems pretty hard to find drums from this era, let alone the lugs sold separately. I looked into buying a tube lug to somewhat match, the hole spacing is 7" apart and it seems like I cant find any tube lugs of that hole distance. Ive also looked into just using two single point lugs (dont mind that they dont match the other lugs). Any ideas on if I can score a vintage lug? Anyone possibly know if I can find 7" hole distance tube lugs? Is two separate lugs a good idea? Thanks for any help guys, I was so excited to restore this and now Im at a standstill.