BROKEN! Porkpie 6.5"x14" Brass Snare Throw Off

[iamtak]

Okay, Porkpie, most of us here seem to really dig your products. Here's your chance to wow us all again.

Give me good customer support I'll buy your products forever, and favor them over other, comparable products.

I've got your "Big black brass Snare" The one made in Taiwan. The throw off broke. A small metal grommet connecting the throw off's arm/lever to the rest of the throw off was sheared in half when moving the lever back up to engage the snares. Without this i can move the arm all i want but as its no longer connected to the rest of the throw off nothing happens.

There;s not enough room between the body of the throw off and the lever for me to go to home depot and retrofit with a screw and bolt.

I called pork pie, got a message machine and left a message.

Ive attached a picture with the hole through which this grommet passed labeled.

[pdp 9091]

this is the same exact thing that happened to a snare that i had bought from this kid at school. (Pearl steel snare.) I just took the whole snare throw off from my Yamaha Steel snare and installed it on the Pearl. But i dont think you want to do that so i say just try to keep contacting Pork Pie.

[mind_drummer]

I had exactly the same problem with my cheap DB steel snare. What I did is I replaced the rivet and everything works fine now.

[iamtak]

Originally Posted by mind_drummer

I had exactly the same problem with my cheap DB steel snare. What I did is I replaced the rivet and everything works fine now.

Rivet.. that was the word i was looking for, not grommet.

[Skitch]

Originally Posted by iamtak

Rivet.. that was the word i was looking for, not grommet.

Or you could just put a Trick throw-off on it and never have to worry again!

Mike

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[el pollo diablo]

or the Dunnet classic throw-off!!! it's at guitar center for $45ish bucks. Gibraltar is making it. Dunnet must have licensed it to them.

[iamtak]

I'd buy the trick throw off if i knew it was going to fit, what are the dims on the mounting hardware? I also dont know if this snare is good enough to bother putting a trick throw off on.

EDIT: El pollo diablo, tell me you're a fan of the Monkey Island games... God those rocked me hard.

[hauk]

i dont think the trick does fit, but mike sells a retrofit kit for pork pies that will let you put a trick strainer on without drilling or anything

[drummer_dudley]

haha did the same thing TOOOK ME AGES but had to take the skins of to get a screw and nut in the place its starting to stuff up again but

Originally Posted by iamtak

Okay, Porkpie, most of us here seem to really dig your products. Here's your chance to wow us all again.

Give me good customer support I'll buy your products forever, and favor them over other, comparable products.

I've got your "Big black brass Snare" The one made in Taiwan. The throw off broke. A small metal grommet connecting the throw off's arm/lever to the rest of the throw off was sheared in half when moving the lever back up to engage the snares. Without this i can move the arm all i want but as its no longer connected to the rest of the throw off nothing happens.

There;s not enough room between the body of the throw off and the lever for me to go to home depot and retrofit with a screw and bolt.

I called pork pie, got a message machine and left a message.

Ive attached a picture with the hole through which this grommet passed labeled.

I have the same snare, my throwoff hasn't broke yet, but it's very hard to get the snares to the on position if you disengage them. I'm going to call Pork Pie as well. I think the drum is worthy of having a better thowoff on it, but you shouldn't have to buy a new one, Pork Pie should replace it. I know the drum is made in Taiwan, but from what I understand all the components of the drum are inspected by Pork Pie before they are sent to Taiwan to be assembled.