adjusting toe in on brake calipers

[eddief]

The Tektros I installed on my Rambouillet could use a slight toe-in adjust on one side of the front caliper. In the old days, I mean old, we used to simply get the caliper arm in the jaws of an adustable wrench and gently torque the caliper arm a bit in the desired direction. Are the alloy arms on modern brakes condusive to this or do I risk just snapping it off?

[victoryfactory]

Don't bend alloy anything. It could snap.
Pad toe-in is often ignored by modern "mechanics". They set up pads to be
even to the rim. This is usually not a problem. I'm not sure if it is because they don't know what they are doing, or because it's a passe thing. Pad
toe-in is to compensate for lack of stiffness in the caliper, maybe modern
brakes are stiffer and don't need as much toe-in.

any-hoo,

If you want to optimize your pad performance, you can set toe in with
shims or shim-like, uneven washers. Some pads come with them (Campy does,
I think)

VF

[Smiley]

Losen the pads and adjust the washers that came with the brakes , I just did the same thing with the Tektros that I installed on my fixee . Cheap and did the job , much better braking then my single pivot brakes .

[eddief]

I did not realize that the brake shoe/washer interface had curved surfaces meant just for the kind of adjusting I needed to do. That worked perfectly.