03-08-2018, 08:54 AM
When fitting new brake shoe endcaps, does everybody use the method described in the Woodrow manual, using 3/16" Whitworth countersunk setscrews to retain them, or is careful crimping over of the tips sufficient?
The reason I ask is that countersinking sufficiently for the head of the screw to lie flush takes quite a lot of material out of the endcap. And that's with going down to M4 - smaller diameter than 3/16 Whitworth.
I did wonder about simply drilling through the endcap and into the shoe with the same diameter as the original aluminium 'pip', and then filling with epoxy up to the face of the endcap, thus replicating the 'pip'.
The reason I ask is that countersinking sufficiently for the head of the screw to lie flush takes quite a lot of material out of the endcap. And that's with going down to M4 - smaller diameter than 3/16 Whitworth.
I did wonder about simply drilling through the endcap and into the shoe with the same diameter as the original aluminium 'pip', and then filling with epoxy up to the face of the endcap, thus replicating the 'pip'.