Northerndave
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I've been looking for one of these old brakes for several years now. This one popped up on a sell n swap site about 350 miles from me, I hooked up the trailer and headed that way.
the seller had a large skid loader, it was barely enough to lift the 2800 lb brake onto the trailer. When I got it home we backed the trailer in between my 2 post hoist, rigged it up, lifted and drove the trailer out.
We set it down on a makeshift dolly system using a set of go jack type of car movers and some 3" tubing. Rolled it out the back of the shop where we do our sand blasting.
Started sandblasting.
Epoxy primer
Then I had some left over single stage urethane automotive paints that I mixed together in my best attempt at a roper whitney blue/green.
I used a BMW blue, a ford silver and an old 90's polaris snowmobile color called black sapphire.
This is an 8 ft 14 gauge combination brake. The lower leaf is drawn upwards rather than the top being drawn down. The top leaf is mounted in huge dovetail rails and can be drawn back as much as 8"! The nose bar can be fit with radiused nose bars for radius bending. It also accepts segmented fingers that can clamp on, converting the straight brake to a box and pan. So, crisp tight bending, flatten seams, jointing, reverse bends, radius bends, box n pan... that's why they called it the combination brake.
Granted I don't have the segmented fingers (yet) but I will be looking for some.
the seller had a large skid loader, it was barely enough to lift the 2800 lb brake onto the trailer. When I got it home we backed the trailer in between my 2 post hoist, rigged it up, lifted and drove the trailer out.
We set it down on a makeshift dolly system using a set of go jack type of car movers and some 3" tubing. Rolled it out the back of the shop where we do our sand blasting.
Started sandblasting.
Epoxy primer
Then I had some left over single stage urethane automotive paints that I mixed together in my best attempt at a roper whitney blue/green.
I used a BMW blue, a ford silver and an old 90's polaris snowmobile color called black sapphire.
This is an 8 ft 14 gauge combination brake. The lower leaf is drawn upwards rather than the top being drawn down. The top leaf is mounted in huge dovetail rails and can be drawn back as much as 8"! The nose bar can be fit with radiused nose bars for radius bending. It also accepts segmented fingers that can clamp on, converting the straight brake to a box and pan. So, crisp tight bending, flatten seams, jointing, reverse bends, radius bends, box n pan... that's why they called it the combination brake.
Granted I don't have the segmented fingers (yet) but I will be looking for some.
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