An unusual project

[woodfarmer]

Today I had to fix the brakes on my car as the garage had made a mess of it and after 6 revisits I had decided they were more trouble than they were worth. One of the diversionary hurdles was a need to remove the lip from the outer edge of the brake drums. There was a time when that would have been simple. Just pop them into the Holbrook and bore them. However I ended up making a spigot to centralise them on the wood turning lathe, clamped them with a couple of woodscrews using short bits of wood as spacers. Applied a small angle grinder to the rim as it rotated, as you can see the lips were removed quickly and the drums will now slide on and off easily.

 

[Grahamshed]

I have no idea what you are talking about but it looks very inventive.

 

[dickm]

....and for your next effort, are you going to skim your brake discs????
Very ingenious!

 

[Dalboy]

There is always more ways to skin a cat. well done simple solution

 

[Tazmaniandevil]

Fantastic idea. I've attacked discs with an angle grinder when spinning on the car before, (very stupid) but this looks like a brilliant alternative.