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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Reckless Rat - 25-07-2024
From Saftek in Cleckheaton, via Steve Jones, then my father in law, and then my daughter. I will fit them after the summer. Sounds a bit convoluted but it avoided the post Brexit postal complications.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Jeff Taylor - 25-07-2024
Hi Reckless,
Saftek's Green Gripper ?
Jeff.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - David Cochrane - 25-07-2024
I see that they have done the usual trick of grinding away the edges of the linings and then carrying on to grind edges of the shoes as well ☹️
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Griffiths - 25-07-2024
Yep! Eventually, you end up with 1-inch wide shoes. I told them to be sure not to grind the edges of mine and they did come back untouched.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Nick Lettington - 25-07-2024
(25-07-2024, 10:19 AM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: Yep! Eventually, you end up with 1-inch wide shoes....
Although (weirdly) according to common wisdom the reduction in width does not diminish braking effort - it merely causes them to wear down quicker... perhaps there is method in this
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Reckless Rat - 25-07-2024
Saftek, yes. Green Gripper, I suppose so. Steve can confirm. They are green ish. Finished width is 30,5mm = 1.2"
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Griffiths - 25-07-2024
(25-07-2024, 09:43 AM)David Cochrane Wrote: I see that they have done the usual trick of grinding away the edges of the linings and then carrying on to grind edges of the shoes as well ☹️
If you ask them, they'll leave the edges alone and so prevent them being gradually reduced to 1 inch wide.
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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Reckless Rat - 25-07-2024
Nominal width of my shoes/linings is 31mm which isn't very far from 1 1/4".(1.22")
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - falcott - 25-07-2024
On the subject of brake shoes, I've just finished putting new shoes on the front of my Special. I am now wondering if there is different linings recommended for cable brakes. I just took the shoes in to the shop and asked the boys to reline them, without telling them it was for cable brakes. Yesterday I took the car for a wee drive, and was slightly disappointed at the amount of pedal pressure required to stop it. It was fairly difficult to get the wheels to skid on loose gravel at low speed.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Chris KC - 26-07-2024
(25-07-2024, 01:15 PM)Nick Lettington Wrote:(25-07-2024, 10:19 AM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: Yep! Eventually, you end up with 1-inch wide shoes....
Although (weirdly) according to common wisdom the reduction in width does not diminish braking effort - it merely causes them to wear down quicker... perhaps there is method in this
Quite so - F = µ x R - it's purely a function of friction coefficient and applied force.
Nothing in life is quite that simple, of course, especially when you're talking about drum brakes. The wider shoes <may> confer other benefits e.g. better capacity to dissipate heat, more stable geometry... or may not...