[Scarebird]

Originally Posted by rexs73gto

If you have any access to a brake machine I'd just cut the hub down about 10-15ths. & that way your not damaging the pads or the backer at all. If it only hitting that little a brake machine I think would be your best bet.

Rex, you have had some "interesting" ideas, but this one is truly hare-brained. When you brake, that area you suggest lathing down is part of the load chain - thinning it down will weaken it, perhaps catastrophically.

No machine shop that knows what they are doing will do this task as you desire.