Cheap generic disc brakes

[NOBLNG]

I needed some kind of brakes on my Willys build. Heres what I came up with. I punched some 7/16” discs from some .030” aluminum I have for the rotors. I punched some 7/16” id. X 9/16” od. rings to use as a spacer. Some 9/16” od. X 5/16” id. rings to use for the outer sections of the callipers. I used some .015” styrene sheet to make the bracket. 

[NOBLNG]

A little detailing and it looks not too bad I think.

[Snake45]

Very cool, thanks for sharing it! 

Few years back, I made some quickie brakes out of some random washers I dug out of my Dad's workshop junk drawer, and some scrap red plastic. They're okay for the junky model I used them on. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Very nice, gentlemen. A vastly superior solution in many cases to adapting or modifying kit parts.

[Claude Thibodeau]

Hi Gentlemen!

For my part, just like Snake, I use small sst washers, but I make the calipers by slicing 1/6th of the small plastic "snap cap" bases that hardware stores sell to encapsulate screw heads on furniture. There is the colored cap (usually brown or white) that we don't need here, and the clear base with the hole in the center to clear a size 8 typical screw. The flat side of the base becomes the piston side  of the caliper, and the vertical wall of the cap becomes the section that straddles the disc. A drop of superglue, drill for hose, paint, and voilà!  The only real benefit of this technique is when the caliper is truly visible trough the windows of the mag wheel. It appears less flat, has more heft to it. 

Just my two cents, FWIW...

CT