A place where restoration project-type threads can go to avoid falling off the main page in the WIX hangar. Feel free to start threads on Restoration projects and/or warbird maintenance here. Named in memoriam for Gary Austin, a good friend of the site and known as RetroAviation here. He will be sorely missed.
Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:22 am
OK, aero wrenches... can anyone tell me how many individual brake pads are on a B-17? I am guessing 160 -if one retainer holds 40 pads and there would be 2 retainers per wheel? ..so 80 x 2 wheels, right?
I saw the tires changed on Aluminum Overcast once but my photos don't show the number of pads very well.
Thanks,
Dave
Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:06 am
Dave,
Here are two photos of a brake assembly with pads (2 rows of 20 pads make 40 per brake assembly).
The next two photos are of the inner and outer brake assemblies on a B-17 wheel.
Inner brake installation.
Outer brake installation.
Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:28 pm
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