Re: [CR]Modolo brakes - hard to replace rubber shoes in holders?

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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:18:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: "jeffrey piwonka" <jmpiwonka@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Modolo brakes - hard to replace rubber shoes in holders?
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <bf9c665a0809031158w6e043019if99e05f2520d77a6@mail.gmail.com>


i have luck with just pliers. but to make it easy to hold the carrier. i take a cone wrench and bolt the carrier to the enclosed triangle section.

i've also pushed a pad out using the corner of a counter top.

to get the pads in i get it wet under the faucet then smear a little soap in the groove. they slide right in the carrier and then i just rinse it off and then dry it. very simple.

Jeff Piwonka
Austin, Texas, USA


--- On Wed, 9/3/08, sean flores wrote:


> From: sean flores <seaneee175@gmail.com>

\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR]Modolo brakes - hard to replace rubber shoes in holders?

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, dankasha@yahoo.com

\r?\n> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 1:58 PM

\r?\n> Dan-

\r?\n>

\r?\n> This can be a royal PITA. Most people try and take pliers

\r?\n> to them and pull

\r?\n> the shoes out, the problem with that method is that when

\r?\n> you pull against

\r?\n> the holder it can tend to expand the pad, thus making in

\r?\n> much harder to get

\r?\n> out. The method that I have found to work well is to put

\r?\n> the brake pad in a

\r?\n> vice and squeeze it down tightly, this will keep it from

\r?\n> "expanding", then

\r?\n> remove the holder from the pad rather than the pad from the

\r?\n> holder.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Sean Flores

\r?\n> San Francisco, CA