How To Maintain Your Conga, Timbales or Bongo Lugs

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How To Maintain Your Conga, Timbales or Bongo Lugs

Postby Anonimo » Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:38 pm

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Re: How To Maintain Your Conga, Timbales or Bongo Lugs

Postby Ernesto Pediangco » Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:17 am

Additionally, parts like tuning nuts & washers should have come with nylon washers sandwiched between the two other washers, the main washer on the lug, then a nylon washer & then the washer before the tuning nut. This reduces metal on metal friction & acts like a bearing for smoother, less friction tuning. Proper alignments of tuning system & keeping the hooks centered in the lug saddles, eliminates the threads from scratching against other metal surfaces. I feel many lug designs do not allow enough clearances for the moving parts to function with out some future damage. I often use thin nylon sleeves on the threads of the tuning hook or rod, to keep the tuning rod centered in lug saddles & eliminate metal on metal.
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