I don't know about you guys, but I use these things up like beer at a superbowl party ( at least1-2 drums a year ) because the keep cracking in the middle. so I think the volume is definately there to do the tooling required to do this. the problem I am having is finding the ring shaped cast iron or steel material. do you guys know if they are iron or steel ? I am getting one checked with a mass spectrometer tommorow to see what the originals were. I will have a price quote in a week or so, but it is going to be hard to get them down to $150.

but even at $200 to $225 the cost is not really prohibitive, heck some guys have front rotrs that cost that much !

Thanks
Chris Plucker