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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Squeaky Brakes Remedy
Message-ID: <447@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 14:02:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 14:02:55 1985
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In article <1402@utcsri.UUCP>, zsd@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Diamond) writes:
>The remedy of toeing-in the brakes fascinates me.  I can see this
>working for a while, but what happens when the brake pads wear down
>a bit and are once again parallel to the rim?  Then do you toe-in some
>more?  (No, obviously not.)  Replace the pads?  Well, why not adjust the
>pads in the first place, and not the brake levers?
>
>On the other hand, maybe I'm missing something here...
>
>		Jim Diamond
>		...ihnp4!utcsri!zsd

If there's some way the pads can be adjusted to toe in/out without bending
the levers, I'd like to know too (involving some kind of wedge shaped shim
with a hole in it)?  But presuming the levers were adjusted, and the pads
wore, and started squeaking again I suppose the pads could be swapped (but
then you'd get twice the original toe-in).
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