Re: [VAL] Brake magnet disc

[Glyn Judson <glynjudson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Dean and all,

    So kiddies, listen up to your old Uncle Glyn and you'll find out the
really neat way to refasten your magnetic brake discs. Plus there's a great
joke awaiting you at the end of this tale or should I say tail?

    Well the bearing job is done (10" drums by the way) and although the
learning curve was short, it still kicked in toward the end.  I dutifully
began to drill out the three streetside rivets from the flared side inside
the drum and drove two of them out with a drift.  I then thought to myself
there must be an easier way of doing this so I knocked the last of six domed
rivet heads off from the outside of the drum with a massive, fat cold chisel
and it came off like butter in August.  I barely tapped it out (in?) the
other way with the drift.

    The Grade 8 hardened screws, washers and nuts went in with no problem
and before I knew it, I was installing the drum.

    Yesterday at some point of disassembly my 6-month-old black Lab Clark
decided to help me by stealing one of the lug nuts I had collected in the
curbside hub cap.  Fortunately I caught him in the act and got it back.  I
put the hub cap on tip of the tire and all was fine after that.  Fast
forward to today and I'd forgotten my training of yesterday so when I was
getting everything ready to button up, there were now only five lug nuts in
the streetside hub cap that I'd set on the ground.

    Now Clark doesn't swallow this kind of contraband but he does take it to
another location until he tires of it at which point, there it stays.  So
now somewhere in the back yard is an original vintage Airstream lug nut and
a brand new 85 cent (yet another trip to the auto parts house) lug nut
graces my Caravel.  ; - )  A photo of Clark guarding his Teddy bear tonight
is available to anyone back channel on request.

    Seriously folks, I'd highly recommend to anyone doing this same job that
they save themselves a lot of grief and instead of drilling the rivets out,
knock the heads off instead.

    Go for it,

    Glyn