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Old 07-01-2019, 10:13 AM   #7
Bob-93021
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Default Re: 1947 Sedan rear brake drums

Superreal, talked with a mechanic friend about turning drum. his machine does not have the thin arbor like Rich posted above. After looking over my uncut drum we think best route is to find someone to arc the shoes rather than turn drum and risk damaging drum. I will not have drum turned unless I am very confident the person has done them in the past.
I will still look for a place to arc the shoes. I believe there is a company called Valley Friction about 30 miles from me that does the big rig stuff. As a back up I am going to paint store today to get some of the adhesive backed sandpaper on a 2" wide roll and stick it to drum. Will try manually rotation shoe to make it just a little smaller in hopes drum fits over shoes. This might take awhile. Hopefully I have attached a pix of drum condition. It really is not bad after just a little clean up. edit: will wear respirator!
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