Replacing clutch brake pads?

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  • December 20, 2017 at 10:23 pm #405726
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    Bill, if you just want to rotate to get rid of the groove there is no reason to remove them. You can just turn them, there is no alignment, just a spring inside the housing to push them back into place. If you want to turn them over and put the other side towards the clutch then yes just remove the screws holding them and turn them over.

    December 20, 2017 at 10:35 pm #405727
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    Bill, if you just want to rotate to get rid of the groove there is no reason to remove them. You can just turn them, there is no alignment, just a spring inside the housing to push them back into place. If you want to turn them over and put the other side towards the clutch then yes just remove the screws holding them and turn them over.

    This sounds like a great fix! Will try it.

    Richard V Anderson, I heard that Alan Schmidt drives a PA series 4, like mine. maybe he will have some of these pads. Will call him.

    December 21, 2017 at 8:56 am #405729
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    The material that was on the clutch brakes of my C-3 was identical to that from the 1912 in the pictures above.If it is worn close to the metal there is no choice but to fit new ones.One of my other hobbies is antique electric lighting and I have seen a similar material used for insulation in the bases of some of the very early electric light bulbs and sockets.It could have been made from some kind of a

    resin.From the one photo of the red material,it looks like it can break apart.

    December 21, 2017 at 12:47 pm #405732
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    I think this original material could have been a sort of heavy paper base mixed with a type of resin as a binder.

    December 21, 2017 at 2:16 pm #405733
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    Richard, I just talked with Alan Schmidt. Great guy and gave me some good advice about our 1916.

    He uses brake material as clutch pads. Usually, fit into a cup-shaped holder. Grind the brake material to fit. Glue, screw or rivets. He feels that the clutch brakes can be more trouble than worth. Often he backs them out where they are “out of the way”” and forget about them. Enough heavy oil in the transmission and no real need to stop the clutch brakes.

    Did not realize that the clutch should only be depressed about 3/4 way.”

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