How do I repair my 1979 Carroll Sound Wind Chime Rack?

Hey all,

I'm just getting back into drumming, and went down to my storage locker today to check my drums out and brought home a couple things that need cleaning up and fixing. One of the things that I never figured out how to repair was my wind chime rack. I bought this around 1980. I still have all 35 chimes that go on this rack, but years ago when I was playing, I had knocked alot of them off the rack with my sticks, and they broke off really easily. Tonight I cut all them free from the rack, as around 15 of them had already been off the rack. Anyway, I see that Carroll Sound used what looks like an epoxy on the reverse side to hold these thing on...they were dangling from what looked to be almost a fishing line. I think years ago, I had tried tying some of them back on with fishing line, but trying to get them to hang perfectly in line with the rest of the chimes was next to impossible. So yeah, I cut them all free tonight, hoping there's an easy way to mount them back on so they all hang at an even distance from the rack, and look orderly and not sloppy. I also need to figure out what to do about all the "hard" epoxy lumps that are currently on the back of the wood, as they need to go and I'm not sure how to do that without damaging the wooden bar.

So here's what the wooden bar looks like. LOL, I'm just noticing now how unevenly the holes were drilled:



The Carroll Sound logo:



The nasty back of the board with all the epoxy clumps that I need to figure out how to remove. I could sand this whole thing down and refinish it, but I'm not a woodworker and I'd need some advice, but I also need to figure out what to do with glue bumps...



And of course how do I get the chimes all back on and hanging evenly? Here they are all lined up in order...
Also, they are all thin (and hollow) brass chimes, so I'm wondering what is the best way to clean them and shine them all back up?
Any advice would be super appreciated. I'd love to get this thing looking brand new again.

I found these, which would make sure they all hang from the same height, but I still need to figure out a way to remove the epoxy on the wood.
Plastic Fasteners
Latin Percussion has fasteners, but only 24 of them for $10. The link above = 2,000 fasteners for $9.
I wonder if they are both the same quality. Kinda looks it.

UPDATE: I got the glue off the wooden bar with a flat-tip screwdriver. Then I sanded that area down a bit to smooth it out. The fasteners were apparently secured with a hot glue gun, and not epoxy. Now I just need to decide what fasteners to buy, and maybe buy a hot glue gun at Hobby Lobby.

The Spectrasound Mark trees used the same plastic tie loops but they were actually made of kevlar. I have no idea where he was getting them though. The wooden bar had a recess for the connector part so they were flush with the surface.

I'd be concerned that regular plastic ties wouldn't last very long. Any cymbal polish (or metal polish) like nevr dull should work fine.

Well, I just bought the plastic fasteners off of Amazon, and oddly enough, they look EXACTLY like the original fasteners that came with these chimes when I bought them brand new. They are EXACT matches. I know one thing, I bought 2000 of them for $9.00, so I have plenty of extras if they break off, LOL. I will have to hot glue them on the back again, as the wooden bar just has standard holes drilled through it. The glue will go on the back area. Latin Percussion had fasteners as well, but they didn't look much different from the ones on Amazon, and they wanted $10 for only 24 fasteners, and I needed 35 of them.