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DEL, you're darn good, SIR!
Thanks I've turned a few drums when I was younger. thousands of them, actually. in the early 70's I worked for my Dad's parts store. In those days our small town had several service stations that did tune-up/ brake jobs and other light work. And, there were several 1 or 2 man shops that did that and more. AND a couple of the dealers used to bring us their drums/ rotors. I don't think any of the shops except maybe the local Ford? dealer had a drum or disk lathe. Dad had a drum lathe (old Van Norman) and a "quick way" disk lathe. This allowed you to do 2x the work rather than having to wait for the same lathe to use.
Dad also had an arcing machine which I hated Dusty dirty!!!
When I came here it wasn't long until they bought a brand new Ammco disk/ drum lathe. And they bought the "extra big" spindle for the truck trailers. We turned a LOT of log truck drums. Shop guy made a roll around gantry to ease handling them onto the lathe. There, I turned "a few hundred" more.
Both places had a manuel rivet machine, and I've stomped that thing a few thousand times. We mostly relined truck shoes, but also a few bands for jammers and even steering brakes.
I still have an Ammco disk/ drum lathe, and thought I could make a few bucks turning them. But after a few weeks ad on C/L I gave up. Nobody interested. I've turned a few here and there. Not many