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Subject: RE: Preferred Finish On Brake Plates?..

Author: NEIL DILLY

Date: Aug 11, 2005, 2:37 PM

Post ID: 1719284655


its the 4-shoe brake so comes with a kind of rough cast finish.. the
wire wheel then polish idea sounds good as I dont want it too shiny,
that'll just show-up the rest of the bike!
Neil

Fred Sahms wrote:
 
If you're talking about the 2-shoe front brake, polishing looks great
because the finish is already pretty smooth.

If you're talking the four-show brake, the plates weren't really
polished originally, so it'll be tough to polish them. What I have done

on that kind of finish is to wire wheel them and then polish them. It
ends up looking great but not showy, and it's no as porous as a bead
blasted finish so it's easier to keep clean.


Greg Bender wrote:
 
Hi Neil,

Some may agrue about heat dissipation with chromed or painted brake
plates. But, unless you are trying to follow Ken Pitts around the track,


I think you should do whatever you like. I agree that polishing will
probably be the easiest to keep looking good the longest.

Maybe it's just me, but I think the brake plates are the hardest to
polish of all the "polishable" loop parts.

NEIL DILLY wrote:
 
I'm looking at pulling the brake plates off the bike at the end iof the
summer to change the shoes.. whilst they're apart was considering taking



the oportunity to tidy them up a bit.. so whats the preferred finish,
powder coated, vapour blast, polished or paint?? any pro/cons for any of



those choices or just personal taste?? I'm steering towards polished as
I'm thinking that either powdercoat or paint is going to get
scratched/chipped whenever i remove/refit the wheel??
Neil



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