homebrew brake pads?

Pigchops · June 2007

When are you testing them downhill?!?!

red eye · June 2007

already teasted down a hill well from 20mph according to my comp.
whats the quickest way to brake in pads??

i'll post a pic of the pads later when i take them out

Noodoo · June 2007

just ride really... go, stop, go, stop...

I don't reckon finding a long hill and braking all the way down is a good idea though... you'll probably over heat the disc.

mbukfan · June 2007

when bedding in the disc you can put mud in to get lots of little scratches but with the pads I think you just ride them

I think I'd have gone for 24 expoxy

Some people use a magnet to hold a knife blade in place and move it twoards a belt sandger to make sure the blade is an even thickness all over (or getting even edge bevels) Don't see why you couldn't do something similar with break pads (unless you don't have enough metal to clamp onto)

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red eye · June 2007

crap pic taken with my phone
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Drfabulous0 · June 2007

So are you gonna be recycling everyones pads now?

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Anonymous · June 2007

funny this thread came up again, I was just wandering the other day how it went, and i remembered a little factlet
EBC make brake pads for mountain bikes (at least they used to), and they also make car and motorbike brake pads. Their prices were no different to any other manufacturers, really.
<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by red eye

well what i seen so far the bike pads are more matalic a gold colour the car pads are a sinted resin fiber type material a gray black colour. maybe bike pads work better with the amount of force the bike setups capable of i wont be ble to tell you till i have tried them. im aiming to have them ready and installed by this friday

as for the price its because car pads are more popular as a manufacture use the same brake set up for most of its range some brake are even the same as other makes of cars just like car tyres. if there were other comapnys like pagid, mintex, ferodo ate etc etc out there that would make pads for bike that would be compition for the likes hope avid shimarno driving prices down, well thats my theory anyway.

who know i might start a craze and every one would make there own pads if enough people stop buying pads maybe they will put there prices down
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red eye · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Drfabulous0

So are you gonna be recycling everyones pads now?

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<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">er no! dont think i want to do anymore to much hassle

jAckAsS o__0 · June 2007

I think it would work.
Maybe a bit too well seeing as those pads are designed to stop cars going
at 30-70mph.
It might take alot of getting used to and going over your handlebars. lol

And don't use super glue. Ill just say it gets messy!..

EDIT: Have you already made them??

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red eye · June 2007

already made and installed just taking ages to bed in

John · June 2007

They will do, The compound will be absolutely solid, Looked into methods of softening them slightly if there are any?

Well done for getting that far, Was starting to wonder what had happened about them.

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nicklouse · June 2007

re the bedding in. putting them on a surface grinder will give you half a chance of bedding them in.

surface grinder has a moving magnetized flat bed. and a rotating grinding head. used to make things parrallel to the back side.

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Thantos · June 2007

Quite a story that, very impressed.
Bedding them in will be the hardest part. Think how hard the compound is compared with any mountain bike pad.

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ajdriver · June 2007

If your worried about the pad coming apart from the back plate, why dont you make the whole thing from the car break pads and drill a small hole in them. Then the whole thing is moulded from 1 piece of material. just a thought

TE · June 2007

Because the back plate on a car brake pad is about 3 times thicker than a bike one.

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magnus · June 2007

Sound like good winter pads for mudd. Hard wearing.

red eye · June 2007

ajdriver the braking matiral is brittle the piston would punch its way though the pad braking it up, it would also transfer the heat to the pistons then the fluid

nicklouse i dont have access to a serface grinder never even heard of one, i think the closest id come to one of them is an angle grinder and a set square. id be close to losing my fingers too!

harryo · June 2007

lol sounds like this wil lead 2 more problems

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red eye · June 2007

it has not been a problem had to ride hard in hard rain it did the job of stopping me. i dont think its fully bedded in because hard braking did not lock my front wheel up.

red eye · August 2007

update!!!

fully bedded in now not much different to the original shimarno sintered pads they just a harder pull on the lever to lift the back end tho this has led to another problem...i need a braided hose to get rid of the spongy leaver

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