captslappy
02-09-2006, 10:18 PM
As most of you know some of the ports aren't used on the Mac valve banks. Examples are things like Dook's ears, the eyes which are spring loaded and the occasional other movement. Also sometimes an entire movement isn't used like on the props bank which has 2 extra movements that don't get used.
Typically when a valve is blocked off a plug is screwed in where the air nozzel would go. But sometimes it is necassary to add plugs to your valves. Given that these things were screwed in 20 years ago and they were done pretty tight it is often difficult to be able to get them to budge.
Looneybird 78 recently asked me to get him some plugs for some movements he needed to block off. They aren't expensive but unless you have the strength of Hercules it is just really hard to get the piece orginally screwed in out.
I am not using the bass drum foot movement or hihat foot on my Dook for now mainly because the bass drum pedal and original hi-hat are missing. I'm using other off the shelf drum stands for now. Rather than block off the movement on the bank itself, I unscrewed the airline barb on the quick disconnect and screwed in a plug there. It works every bit as good and is 100 times easier to deal with. The quick disconnect thread size is 10/32. You can get a bag of 10 plugs from clippard part #11755-NP with gaskets. Its a cheap and easy alternative to doing it at the bank itself and trying to fight turning those nozzles out.
Typically when a valve is blocked off a plug is screwed in where the air nozzel would go. But sometimes it is necassary to add plugs to your valves. Given that these things were screwed in 20 years ago and they were done pretty tight it is often difficult to be able to get them to budge.
Looneybird 78 recently asked me to get him some plugs for some movements he needed to block off. They aren't expensive but unless you have the strength of Hercules it is just really hard to get the piece orginally screwed in out.
I am not using the bass drum foot movement or hihat foot on my Dook for now mainly because the bass drum pedal and original hi-hat are missing. I'm using other off the shelf drum stands for now. Rather than block off the movement on the bank itself, I unscrewed the airline barb on the quick disconnect and screwed in a plug there. It works every bit as good and is 100 times easier to deal with. The quick disconnect thread size is 10/32. You can get a bag of 10 plugs from clippard part #11755-NP with gaskets. Its a cheap and easy alternative to doing it at the bank itself and trying to fight turning those nozzles out.