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Lynn,
I presume the Aero Commander pads were round and you cut a
round pad (backing plate and all) from the chevy pad........How
did you fasten this to the Commander backing plate or is the pad
captured and you just used the resulting chevy puck and backing
plate after trimming to size on the lathe ??.......General aviation
pads are usually not round but if an auto pad of approx the same
thickness as the a/c pad were sourced a little cutting,grinding and
drilling might produce super pads for our a/c !!........IMHO.........
What do you and the group think ??......
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Kelly Troyer
"Dyke Delta"_13B ROTARY Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"Mistral"_Backplate/Oil Manifold
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In a message dated 1/5/2008 9:52:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ceengland@bellsouth.net writes:
Hmmm...Can you buy raw carbon fiber pad stock? If so, it should be easy
to cut/drill to fit standard Cleveland/Matco backing plates & just mount
using the standard rivets. Are carbon pads riveted to the backplates in
automotive applications, like they are in aviation brakes?
Charlie
I made a set for a Aero Commander from a set of Chevy brake pads. The airplane pad looked like a bunch of kids made it. Two brass rivets holding the material onto a steel backing plate. I sawed them out with a hole saw and trimmed them up in the lathe. No rivets. Car pads are glued on. It was a very flexible single piston slider. Best brakes he ever had. Less than the usual $100.00 each.
You can buy Carbon Metallic pads for any car at the Autozone.
On the race car it was like going from almost no brakes, to Amazing brakes. When a competitor comes by and says " thought you were dead when you went by me under braking. I couldn't believe you made that corner".
The only brakes better than that are carbon pads on a carbon disc. Like a Formula one car.
Lynn E. Hanover
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