On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 03:55:15 -0700, "Howard Beal"
wrote:

Any tips on turning brake drums on a toolroom lathe ?

Gonna do a brake job on my car over the week end and
am thinking about turning the drums myself.

TIA.

Best Regards
Tom.

Generally speaking today if they need turning you are better to
replace them. They are on the thin side to start with, so machining
them at all makes them too thin to work properly. Drums are (generally
speaking) pretty cheap. Not like you are in the middle of a third
world country with an obsolete vehicle (like my old '49 VW in Zambia
in '73 or '74, where I had to hack-saw and chisel a 1961 VW drum (half
an inch too wide) to fit when the spline stripped out of the original
on a trip)