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Re: Strange, Uneven seating of pad

Author: jdbassplayer
Date: 2020-07-01 01:23

Before you seat a pad you need to ensure the tone hole is level. Leveling tone holes is an important part of every repad job and is critical for a good seal. What you need to do is make a tone hole leveling tool. You will need to turn a cylinder roughly the size of the pad from some kind of plastic or metal, make sure the ends are perfectly flat! Then you can glue some 400-600 grit sandpaper to one end and some 1000-1500 grit to the other. Cut away the excess sandpaper. To use the tool simply place the tool over the tone hole while applying pressure and twist back and forth. Only go a few twists at a time. Start with the coarse grit until the surface is flat, then move to the fine grit to finish. If there are any chips they will need to be filled with superglue before leveling.

While this is labor intensive, it is the correct way to get a good seal.

-Jdbassplayer

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