Such modification would be way more grief than what it'd be worth.
Band brakes will work just fine if they are not in need of being re-lined and adjusted right, and oil free. If they are not oil free, then you need to address leaking seals or you are going to have an going problem with oil on your hands. Cleaning and re-installing to fix it, will only be a quick fix, and a process that will need to be repeated if you do not fix the leaking seals.
I was at a guy's place one time, and he had about 4 or 5 sets of band brake linings (that would fit an M) hanging on the frame work of his fuel barrel stand. I said something about, it looks like you have changed a few brakes in your day. He said, well those bands are still good. He said they are only oil soaked (same problem we are talking about), and said his experience has been that sitting out in the weather is the only way to get them back dry again. Apparently he was just changing them out when they became oil soaked. Put on the set that had been out in the weather the longest. The set he took off, was just hung up to repeat the weathering process. I never tried his remedy. But weathering out the oil soaked linings kind of made sense to me. Your not going to get all the oil out of them by using cleaners, or trying to sand it off. The oil is soaked within all the pores. Be kind of like trying to get all the oil out of a spunge. Weathering might do it. I don't know. But sand blasting won't get the oil out from within. Cleaners probably won't either.
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