Custom Brakes were Featured on Wheeler Dealers
We were delighted to be chosen to feature in the episode and help Mike make the classic car safe and roadworthy by relining the brake shoes.
Author: Rob CB
Mooring Winch Brake Reline Service
As brake and clutch relining specialists, we were contacted to refurbish and reline a pair of brake shoes for commercial ships mooring winch.
Vintage and classic brake and clutch relining
Custom Brakes and Hydraulics clutch and brake relining service is available from our factory in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Our services include a fast turnaround on all our products to help with expensive downtime. Our UK wide collection and delivery service helps keep your business or hobby moving without any unnecessary waiting around. Our service caters […]
Restoration of an AEC 1954 Regent vintage bus
Custom Brakes and Hydraulics are proud to have been involved in the restoration of an AEC 1954 Regent vintage bus. As you can well believe finding a full set of brake shoes for a 1954 bus can be somewhat challenging. Luckily for the Transport Museum Custom Brakes and Hydraulics were on hand to meet the […]
Boltmaster Ortlinghaus Clutch Reline
A local worldwide bolt and nut manufacturer recently got in touch with us following a clutch failure – unfortunately for them this was a breakdown situation and ultimately ended up stopping their production. The maintenance department got in touch with us and within one hour we had collected the clutch and it was identified as […]
Cutler-Hammer Brakes
Cutler-Hammer brakes are used for both holding and stopping heavy loads. Common applications include hoists, conveyors, cranes and machine tools. These brakes are from the steel manufacturing industry, specifically off of an overhead crane hoist brake. Not only were these brake shoes relined by thermal bonding procedure some of them were hole line bored on […]
Hasenclever Friction Press
We were recently contacted by a York-based medical manufacturing company asking to have their friction press wheel relined. Due to the weight of the wheel, we collected it using our sister company’s haulage services – Custom Haulage. After collection, it was brought back to our workshop in Sheffield for a full strip-down after which we […]
Massey 1946 Press
A local company called us out for a clutch and brake fail on their Massey 1946 Press and after collection we identified that the brake/clutch was a Taylor size 26. As this is an older setup, we looked at our historic specification records to see what grade of friction and thickness was required. We then […]
