[AT] brake lining adhesive

[Stephen Offiler]

This could become a rant on the current state of "plug & play" automotive
repair.  I'll try to keep it down.  One of the early signs was engine
rebuilding.  Decades ago, that moved from the garage down the street,  to
specialist shops (that still exist for high-performance and racing builds),
then to centralized production-line style rebuilding industry.  Next,
brakes.  Every shop used to have a brake lathe to turn drums and rotors -
they still do, collecting dust in the corner.  New parts got thinner for
reduced weight so in many cases you couldn't cut them, and they also got
cheaper, so the measuring and cutting tasks started to go away.  Just throw
brand-new parts on - parts are cheap and labor is minimal.  As for
re-lining friction material, that's a completely different animal.  I don't
even know the history.  Not sure if it was ever a routine function of the
garage down the street, except maybe way way back.  I do recall core
charges on shoes and pads, so somebody somewhere was apparently re-lining
them.  Starters and alternators, that was once the domain of a local-ish
specialist shop.  Losing out to cheap new replacement parts, but that
battle isn't over.  I work in the Providence RI area, and according to
Google, there are still multiple choices in "armature shops" within
striking distance.

SO


On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 7:30 AM Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com> wrote:

>
> First: thanks Farmer! It was a pretty nice birthday
>
> Second:  I don’t have anything to add, but have a question: Whatever
> happened to local/regional auto parts rebuilders? In every place I’ve lived
> there was a company, usually within 30 minutes, that aggregated automotive
> parts for rebuilding and resale.  These companies would always take walk-in
> parts from local customers as well.  Here, the rebuilder was Hastings(King
> NC). They were not affiliated with the larger national Hastings brand.
>
> Anyways I never learned how to do linings and several other typical shop
> skills such as turning drums, etc because I always had a business locally
> that did it better, faster, and cheaper than I ever could.   Anyways, I
> miss those companies.
>
> Unfortunately Hastings went out of business about 15 years ago. The Pacer
> brake bands were the last things I had done there. I don’t know - it
> might’ve been clutch lining out of another tractor shortly after that.
>
> We’re down to our last few, local  starter/alternator/generator repair
> shops.   I suspect they will be gone soon too.
>
> Spencer
>
>
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