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New Bands

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:19 pm
by South Park Zephyr
We recently had our overnight tour here in St. Louis. My daughter, Hailey, had band problems again. Some may remember last fall her 23 touring had a brake band fail and it put her on the sag wagon. This year the Sandanavia bands she had found from a local online post went south as well. They unfortunately were the infamous “tar babys”.
My question is, since good Scandinavia band are no longer being produced, what should we use?
I’ve heard good and bad about Kevlar, what else is available though?
She is pretty good at driving her car, but I’m not up for replacing drums if she were to break one due to misadjusted Kevlar.
I know that they will be many points of view about this, I’m only trying to find a forgiving solution to her problem.

Thank you,

Scott

Re: New Bands

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:51 pm
by Moxie26
Wood band liners. Inherently soft on drum wear.....new band springs greatly help with adjustments.

Re: New Bands

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 8:19 pm
by Steve Jelf
Correctly adjusted and correctly driven, kevvies are fine. Bad habits (riding pedals and otherwise letting drums slip excessively) are not fine.

Re: New Bands

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:11 pm
by John kuehn
Wrong or bad driving habits will wear out cotton bands or wood and bad driving habits with Kevlar will crack drums. New band springs will definitely help to keep the linings off the drums. Slipping the clutch drum will definitely wear the low speed band.