ticked off brake drum turning

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Allen, both of my brake lathes are Brake Doktors so I doubt my arbors would be of much help to you but a FWIW, one day James Rogers was over here and on a whim I decided to see if we could modify some of my existing cones to fit the Model A drum. While my Southbend lathe has a taper attachment, I'm too ignorant to know how to use it adequately so we just used the compound to cut them down to size. I said THAT to say this, ...I actually like the adapter I made that was a round disc of aluminum that slides into the hub bearing race and pilots off of the arbor. Just a hand nut holds the drum onto the adapter forcing the drum back against that adapter. We also made a super-thin cone to use on the axle nut side of the drum hub, but I find it is difficult to make it center the way I have it. Some day I will likely make a new arbor using an old axle just so it will have the taper to pilot off of.

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