Subject: RE: Preferred Finish On Brake Plates?..
Author: Fred Sahms
Date: Aug 11, 2005, 2:07 PM
Post ID: 1719284539
If you're talking about the 2-shoe front brake, polishing looks great
because the finish is already pretty smooth.
If you're talking the four-show brake, the plates weren't really
polished originally, so it'll be tough to polish them. What I have done
on that kind of finish is to wire wheel them and then polish them. It
ends up looking great but not showy, and it's no as porous as a bead
blasted finish so it's easier to keep clean.
Greg Bender wrote:
Hi Neil, Some may agrue about heat dissipation with chromed or painted brake plates. But, unless you are trying to follow Ken Pitts around the track, I think you should do whatever you like. I agree that polishing will probably be the easiest to keep looking good the longest. Maybe it's just me, but I think the brake plates are the hardest to polish of all the "polishable" loop parts. NEIL DILLY wrote:
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