Does Tama have a drum care guide?

I haven't posted here in a while so I figured I would jump in and offer some advice. Drum Care is a great thing to know in order to make your kit last longer, sound better, and in general help maintain a high resale value. As ernieK put it, Humidity is one of the biggest killers of drums in certain regions. If you live in an area with High Humidity, you should take care to keep from taking your kit from one extreme to the other in temps. For example, if you are gigging in the winter, crank your car and let it heat up before loadinf your drums. Fastest way to warp a drum shell is expansion/contraction from hot to cold. When you are not playing your drums, if you choose to leave them in drum bags or drum cases, put a Dessicant Pack in each case to absorb any moisture. Your hardware like lugs, rims, snare throw-offs become pitted and rust due to moisture. The Silica Gel packets will be your best defense against rust and oxydation.

One of the BIGGEST causes of rust, oxydation, and pitting is Human Oils. When you touch your drums with your barehands, you are transferring human oil off your skin onto your drums. If you want to take proper care of your drums, when you move them them and set them up and tear them down in a gigging situation, wear soft cotton gloves to prevent secondary transfer of human oil onto your rims, lugs, drum finish. If you don't use gloves, take a soft lint-free cloth like t-shirt material and wipe down your drums to remove any fingerprints.

I am a big believer in keeping my drums on a maintenance schedule. Once a year, I tear down, removing all lugs, giving the shell a good polishing using a small amount of Windex and soft cloth to dry. I use Windex on the finsih(Wrap or Lacquer), all metal hardware,. Once everything is cleaned, I reassemble and apply a light bit of Viper Lube to the very tip of each tension rod before installing. This will lubricate your tension rods as well as lug threads to facilitate easier, smoother tuning. If you gig a lot with your best drums, I would do this more often since most bars are full of smokers and cigarette smoke causes drum finishes to dull, yellow, etc...

Lots of drummers have different opinions as to how to care for drums so take this with a grain of salt and decide what parts of it will work best for you.