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<blockquote data-quote="chankly bore" data-source="post: 50215" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>The article cited above is thorough and exhaustive. However I have the temerity, or ignorance, to make a couple of observations. Firstly, the idea that one can simply straighten brake shoe pivot pins should be distrusted. A brief inspection of an original steel plate must result in the conclusion that any bending will seriously compromise the fit of the pin and the integrity of the surrounding metal. As a second point,a recent experience with a friend's Twin illustrated that much cable movement was misdirected into flexing the backing plate, cam boss and probably the aforementioned pins. One must then ask; "how came the pins to be bent?" and the rhetorical reply is: "a design that could be improved coupled with the effluxion of time." There have been, as I and others have previously mentioned, several nifty wheezes for improving and making safer, the existing plates, and I repeat, some sort of bridging plate over the inner end of the pivot pins positively locating slightly thinned shoe eyes and being rigidly bolted to the existing backing plate is a plan worthy of consideration. I saw this done on an Australian machine some 30 years ago an apparently the brakes were brilliant. The above remarks also apply to the brake anchor pin which I personally wouldn't trust after 60 years of unknown use. Strengthening this component, the backing plates and the cam boss has been covered in "Forty Years On."As usual I await verbal blandishments and character assassination. F5AB/2A/7945 since 1970.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chankly bore, post: 50215, member: 317"] The article cited above is thorough and exhaustive. However I have the temerity, or ignorance, to make a couple of observations. Firstly, the idea that one can simply straighten brake shoe pivot pins should be distrusted. A brief inspection of an original steel plate must result in the conclusion that any bending will seriously compromise the fit of the pin and the integrity of the surrounding metal. As a second point,a recent experience with a friend's Twin illustrated that much cable movement was misdirected into flexing the backing plate, cam boss and probably the aforementioned pins. One must then ask; "how came the pins to be bent?" and the rhetorical reply is: "a design that could be improved coupled with the effluxion of time." There have been, as I and others have previously mentioned, several nifty wheezes for improving and making safer, the existing plates, and I repeat, some sort of bridging plate over the inner end of the pivot pins positively locating slightly thinned shoe eyes and being rigidly bolted to the existing backing plate is a plan worthy of consideration. I saw this done on an Australian machine some 30 years ago an apparently the brakes were brilliant. The above remarks also apply to the brake anchor pin which I personally wouldn't trust after 60 years of unknown use. Strengthening this component, the backing plates and the cam boss has been covered in "Forty Years On."As usual I await verbal blandishments and character assassination. F5AB/2A/7945 since 1970. [/QUOTE]
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