H: Hubs, Wheels and Tyres Bert Weisz brake mod.

tmax555

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Can anyone point me to where I can find details of the 'floating shoe' modification to the front brake.
I don't have a copy of the MPH where it was first published. Many thanks.
 
vibrac

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I do wonder what is going on here. Is it that the floating movement at the fixed end is overcoming the reported* small error in the original positioning of the cam /anchor?
* I cant find the reference on here but I know its here.
 
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vibrac

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Bill Thomas said:
Stu told us MPH 821, Or MPH 632.
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No it was a posting by Clever Trevor (I think) about how the position of the holes in the brakeplates were designed a few milimeters out from where they should be I thouught this might have something top do with the efficiency of floating the fixed end
 
vibrac

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This link isnt the one I looked for but it certainly discusses the BW mod a bit further (and a search will find many more)I do hope we dont loose this material on the forum and that people do use the search box or we shall be forever recycling questions that have been asked before angain and again and.....

Brakes

The new shoes certainly must help the stock brakes considerably. The question I would pose would be that if you list all of the parts in the stock brake system that are inadequately stiff or high friction you would get a long list. If it is a list of twenty items, for example, where do brake...
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tmax555

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Many thanks to all who have contributed to this thread.

I did try to search for it under 'Series C Brake Modification' as key words and 'Bert Weisz' as the author and the response I got was he wasn't a member??

Maybe I wasn't using the the search facility correctly but tried several variations of above.
 
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