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Offline CharlesTurner

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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2018, 01:35:59 PM »
I'd expect the finishes to be the same, except for those noted (shoe spring colors and plating of discs).  BTW, I ended up with several bags of NOS discs, they're all gold.  I'm set for a while  ;D
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2018, 10:10:20 PM »
I would agree that the Green, Yellow & Light Blue look great. I was thinking the black is too flat though.
 
Referring to only one other original example and reading another post on the spring colors (with a picture and comments showing/stating what springs and what parts are painted or plated this or that), I am also thinking only one anchor pin spring each side is blue, the other is black.

Obviously, my sample pool is very small and others who do this regularly are better informed than I (such as Charles who has already commented), but the image shared in the other thread conflict with the image and color application posted here.

Perhaps there are assembly date variances in play I am not aware of?

ALSO: What color were the anchor pins? Zinc (silver)? Or Zinc Dichromate (gold)?

Good catch! I used a flat black because I ran out of SG black. :)
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2018, 10:12:06 PM »
Spring colors look good.  Those pin spring cups and the lower spring bracket would be gold color (zinc w/dichromate), the cable slide zinc plated.

I have never done a zinc w/dichromate, I've heard of it but don't have the right stuff to do it. 
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2018, 10:53:18 PM »
I have never done a zinc w/dichromate, I've heard of it but don't have the right stuff to do it.
It is very toxic (think cancerous ) you have to be careful with it. It is something to have another do unless you are doing a lot of it at a number of different times.
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2018, 11:12:14 PM »
It is very toxic (think cancerous ) you have to be careful with it. It is something to have another do unless you are doing a lot of it at a number of different times.

Just a little sniff of the dye can put you down quickly. This from a guy that stood in allot of very and vapors through my career.

There are other yellow dyes that I've run across but never played with them enough to see if they could be substitute, how much to use, soak time, .....

This stuff is really bad news.
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2018, 11:23:55 PM »
I'd expect the finishes to be the same, except for those noted (shoe spring colors and plating of discs).  BTW, I ended up with several bags of NOS discs, they're all gold.  I'm set for a while  ;D

Care to sell any?  PM me.  I paypal too. 
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2018, 11:33:42 PM »
Care to sell any?  PM me.  I paypal too.

No, sorry.  They are too hard to find.
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2018, 12:17:57 AM »
No, sorry.  They are too hard to find.

The NOS shoe hold down discs are hard to find?  I'll have to check with Fred. 
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2018, 09:51:39 AM »
Did our kars come with the gold-plated discs originally? 
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2018, 06:05:08 PM »
Did our kars come with the gold-plated discs originally?

Yes, I wouldn't have linked to them if that wasn't the case.
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2018, 06:56:13 PM »
Yes, I wouldn't have linked to them if that wasn't the case.

Well then I must have! 

I'll check with Fred to see if he has any.
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2018, 07:58:55 PM »
Well then I must have! 

I'll check with Fred to see if he has any.

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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2018, 08:49:42 PM »
Well then I must have! 

I'll check with Fred to see if he has any.
You keep on mentioning "Fred"...is this someone we all should know who he is?
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Re: drum brake components: reuse?
« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2018, 09:39:11 PM »
yes. Very much so.  But I assumed most of you did. He has rare OEM parts, especially HiPo parts. 
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