Floor Tom Leg Memory Locks.

I've been looking for floor tom leg memory locks with no luck. My Sonor has 12 mm floor tom legs (the black Pulse kit has more like 9mm legs). I had never thought of memory locks for floor tom legs, but it came up while I was looking for a replacement memory lock for the 3/4 inch tom mounts for the Sonor (the replacement parts from Gilbralter KIND of work, by the way, except the tab doesn't fit in the hole). I remember borrowing someone's kit once and they had used duct tape to create tom leg memory locks. This worked great for them...but horribly for me because I couldn't adjust the height (and he was tall). Adjustable floor tom leg memory locks would create the best of both worlds...easy set up OR adjustment. Anyway, floor tom leg memory locks seem to exist, but don't seem to be easy to find, especially not as replacement parts.

On some forum I read that a guy used hose clamps. I wondered if this would lock terrible and might scratch the legs or the tom. But I was looking at hose clamps for another home repair project and so I picked up three of the smallest clamps that they had at the store. They just fit on my finger.

 I wrapped each tom leg in old rubber bicycle tube (to avoid scratching the chrome, if there is any) and put the clamps on.

They work great and there's nothing that seems in danger of scratching the tom finish. It doesn't even look that bad. The below pic is upside down. The locks are such that the legs can easily be removed entirely for storage or transport.