Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hi everyone - Thanks for the adivce y'all gave me a few weeks ago
regarding my Simmons bass that was no longer triggering.  I got inside
the drum and did find one of the two wires that connect to the trigger
was disconnected.  I was only able to get to this last night as I was
on the road performing for several shows up until this weekend. I will
get to the soldering this weekend.

I did find something else out when I finally got inside the drum.  I
recall one of you indicating that for me to remove the rubber or to be
able to get inside the drum I would have to remove staples.  There
were no staples to remove.  The rubber was glued to the wood frame
inside...and once the rubber was removed I pulled the wood frame out
of the shell to get to the trigger.

Based on all this, are these drums actually SDS9 instead of SDS8?

I also found a "inspected by" sticker inside that has several numbers
that indicate it might have been manufactured in November 1985 (the
numbers were something like "261185")

What do y'all think?

Thanks,

Nick
San Francisco,CA