Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hello all!

Several months back, someone responded to my query about a replacement
for the DATA PANEL for the SDS7, and I wasn't able to scrape up the
money for it...since then, I have lost his email address, and now I
have the money for it (Isn't that always the case???)!!!

I am looking for the whole DATA PANEL for the SDS7, with all the
buttons & the BIG knob & display(intact, of course)...don't really
need the internal connecting cables(s), but probably wouldn't hurt ;)

I bought an SDS7, but the damn BIG knob is broken off of it, sheared
at the base of the knob, so I can't even turn it with pliers or
"other" tools...works perfectly other than that (and I'd rather not
try to replace the knob with an aftermarket "guesstimation")!

I remember that he was overseas (Europe, Germany perhaps(Wolfgang, was
it you??)), but no email address...if I am referring to you, PLEASE
email me & let me buy that from you, if still available!!!!!  If not,
and you DO have an intact/working replacement DATA PANEL, PLEASE email
me & I will purchase it from you!

ALSO, if anyone has any extra tom cards they aren't using, I'd buy
them as well!

Thanks so much everyone!  Take care!

Rodney wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> Several months back, someone responded to my query about a replacement
> for the DATA PANEL for the SDS7, and I wasn't able to scrape up the
> money for it...since then, I have lost his email address, and now I
> have the money for it (Isn't that always the case???)!!!
> 
> I am looking for the whole DATA PANEL for the SDS7, with all the
> buttons & the BIG knob & display(intact, of course)...don't really
> need the internal connecting cables(s), but probably wouldn't hurt ;)
> 
> I bought an SDS7, but the damn BIG knob is broken off of it, sheared
> at the base of the knob, so I can't even turn it with pliers or
> "other" tools...works perfectly other than that (and I'd rather not
> try to replace the knob with an aftermarket "guesstimation")!

I had a new spindle made up from brass rod by one of the techs at the 
college I was at, a good few years ago.  Before I did that, I used a 
long bolt and a bit of brass tubing as a bush.

Unless the electronics on the control panel is damaged, you wouldn't 
need the whole thing.  Have you got the opto disc?  If not, you could 
easily make one out of thin plastic sheet.

Gordon.