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Raffle Bus 35 Update - Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025

1 Nov 2025 23:33

Today Russell, Brian, David and I jumped right into the middle of removing the front spindles, the rear drums and backing plates and cleaning and scraping 60 years of grime and rust from some of the parts. The backing plates are being cleaned in order to prime and paint them before adding all new shoes and hardware. The front spindle are being replaced with newly rebuilt ones. The front backing plates need to be redone also before all new shoes and hardware are installed.

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