[Fot] Brake shoe re-arching

[william r tobin]

One of the machines used was an AMMCO Safe Arc Brake shoe grinder. I just 
happen to have one in my garage. Only problem is that I'm missing a couple 
of adapters. I've played around with it, but can't seem to get the process 
right. The shoe gets clamped in a fixture and is moved toward a spinning 
sanding drum to take off lining material. The lining is supposed to be 
ground to match the drum.
In the late '60's when I was working for a Pontiac garage, we would punch 
out the old lining rivets, and install new lining and rivet them on with an 
old foot-operated press punch setup. Worked OK.
A friend still has a rivet tool; he re-lines clutches and such on his old 
tractors.
Cheers, Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Yott" <tr4 at wi.rr.com>
To: <toodamnfunky at comcast.net>; "'fot'" <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Brake shoe re-arching


> Good luck with that.  I haven't seen one of those tools in 40 years!  I 
> used
> one of these in a shop when we would actually reline shoes with material
> which was very thick and you would radius the shoes on the machine which 
> was
> basically a sanding wheel.  The normal cut on a drum would be about 010 to
> 020 and the new shoes should bed in okay.
>
> Steve Yott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of toodamnfunky at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:07 AM
> To: fot
> Subject: [Fot] Brake shoe re-arching
>
> Hey FoT,
>
> I'm getting ready to reline my brakes and I have inquired at my local 
> shops
>
> about re-arching the shoes to fit the newly turned drums. Out of three
> inquiries
>
> all three thought I was from another planet and all three suggested I 
> bring
> the
>
> car in so they could adjust my brakes properly. I suspect they thought I 
> was
> the one
>
> that didn't know what I was talking about. Maybe I am from another planet
> and just
>
> don't know it.
>
> Any input or comments on re-arching brake shoes would be appreciated.
>
> Jim G.
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