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Posted by Keith in Washington [24.41.44.238] on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 10:53:08 :
In Reply to: Re: Is Helitool the only disc brake conversion? posted by mannyc [68.165.89.2] on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 08:36:51 :
I have been at Ray's shop a couple of times. He does excellent work. If anything, he errors in building items that are much stronger than needed. That is a good thing.
Jonas and I were talking about disk brakes last weekend. Tim Peterson did have the first generation of the disk brakes. There is an article in one of the early Power Wagon Advertisers. He actually welded the caliper bracket to the hub. I believe at the end he went to a bolt on system. He got out of doing it as the liability was too high. There might have been someone else making them just after Tim. Jonas thought someone in Alaska did some. Jonas has a set of disks on a truck that are not Ray's. He is not sure who made them but they looked good and also used GM calipers. The caliper mount was a bolt on but were different where the caliper mounts. I actually had a set of disk brake hubs and caliper mounts made 20 years ago by a friend who owned a machine shop in Alaska.
Obvious Ray has been at it for a few years and makes a very good product. I do remember VPW announcing some but have not seen anything is quite a while. I think they thought they had a market when Ray moved overseas. VPW does not have anything listed in their online catalog.