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I have been looking for one of these for years but they are generally in the $600 to $800 range. I think the number one reason people think their drum brakes are no good is because they never have the shoes ground to the arch of the drum. Most have never heard of it when they jumped on the get rid of asbestos all of the parts houses got ride of them. Most took out the brake lathe also so they could sell you new rotors and drums all the time. If you do not grind them it takes a long time to wear in to fit the drum.
I got the Ammco disc and drum lathe at a sale about 4 years ago for $350 has all of the tooling. Going to take it apart clean it up and just by chance Ammco used Ford Corporate blue on their equipment. I had got a gallon of the Lowe's equivalent of Rustoleum and they can scan and mix any color. So I took a valve cover and they mixed and it matches perfect. I painted my brake lathe, hydraulic press and rotisserie with it.
He did not have the gauges though that sucks I will have to figure out how to set the radius accurately.
I had ordered new dust boots for the lathe and need to get that back together. I have too many projects all the time, lol. I get bored with one and go to another. There is another rack of tooling under the lathe can do any rotor or drum.
I posted an add on Craigslist for the grinder and this guy buys lots of equipment with online auctions. I got it for $150 and he had a table it mounts on I gave him $50 for that. He is disabled and buys and sells to make a little money. He had a nice South Bend 8" lathe he got for $350. Going to get the info from him on that. If I had a lathe I could make the extinct lug nuts for the 1973 factory aluminum wheels.
So in the future if you want your drum brakes to work like they should you can send me your shoes to grind. It does have a bag for the dust but will do outside and look for a big vacuum at Goodwill to hook up to it.
Most do not know anything about grinding the shoe so here is a link to a video on youtube so you know.
I got the Ammco disc and drum lathe at a sale about 4 years ago for $350 has all of the tooling. Going to take it apart clean it up and just by chance Ammco used Ford Corporate blue on their equipment. I had got a gallon of the Lowe's equivalent of Rustoleum and they can scan and mix any color. So I took a valve cover and they mixed and it matches perfect. I painted my brake lathe, hydraulic press and rotisserie with it.
He did not have the gauges though that sucks I will have to figure out how to set the radius accurately.
I had ordered new dust boots for the lathe and need to get that back together. I have too many projects all the time, lol. I get bored with one and go to another. There is another rack of tooling under the lathe can do any rotor or drum.
I posted an add on Craigslist for the grinder and this guy buys lots of equipment with online auctions. I got it for $150 and he had a table it mounts on I gave him $50 for that. He is disabled and buys and sells to make a little money. He had a nice South Bend 8" lathe he got for $350. Going to get the info from him on that. If I had a lathe I could make the extinct lug nuts for the 1973 factory aluminum wheels.
So in the future if you want your drum brakes to work like they should you can send me your shoes to grind. It does have a bag for the dust but will do outside and look for a big vacuum at Goodwill to hook up to it.
Most do not know anything about grinding the shoe so here is a link to a video on youtube so you know.
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