Subject: RE: Brake relining
Author: Lannis Selz
Date: Sep 9, 2003, 3:58 PM
Post ID: 1714459854
Ian Adkins wrote:
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone has had their shoes relined before? By whom and cost. I received a new set of shoes for my 4-leading shoe Eldo and the shoes would not fit into the drum. I thought about trying to take off some of the friction material but too much would have to come off so I am looking at relining the one side that has worn badly. The other side is in good shape. I rode the White Eldo to work yesterday and the clutch worked fine when I was heading out the drive. After 7 miles (of non clutch use) I could feel the clutch starting to grab as I made the turn into the school. Weird. So far the clutch is manageble and I will keep monitoring this over the next little while. My hope is that they will smooth out over time. I doubt it but since I am not planning to do anything to this bike until I get the Police Eldo together I might as well ride her as long as she doesn't get too unpredictable. Ciao...Ian |
Ian -
I've always used frictionmat.com.
All they do is reline brakes, clutches, industrial drives, etc. They
know how to put new friction material on anything.
They've done several BSA brakes for me. I just send them the shoes,
tell them what it's for, and they come back with bonded, trimmed linings
for a real reasonable price within a few days. I don't know if they
have different kinds of material for different bike applications, but
what they've picked for me has always worked well.
On my twin-leading-shoe BSA, it's best to mount up the shoes to the
backing plate, chuck it in a lathe, and turn the shoes to the right
diameter for the drum; acts just like a decent disk brake after that.
I'm usually too cheap or impatient for that, though, and so I
temporarily glue a fine sandpaper strip cut to fit the inside of the
drum, and turn it by hand to ease the linings into shape.
Anyway, the Friction Materials company is good folks.
Lannis