Is This a VV2-55?

[Lah Ca]

Your leather brake pad can be made out of treadle sewing machine belt, which is also round and leather. Need some? I can take a look and see what I have either stashed in my part pile or inside the old Singer.

Thank you for the kind offer. May I please take a rain check here?

I won't need the leather for a bit. The wood shard is effective, perhaps brutally so.

I had thought about begging a cobbler for leather scraps from cutting soles or heels and then clamping the scrap leather between two pieces of wood and using a plug cutter with a bit of neetsfoot oil as a lubricant to make a brake pad.

Somewhere, I also have a small stock of heavy, very thick, rough leather that I bought a lifetime ago from a old school ship's chandler that was going out of business; it was for rope work. This marine leather might work, too.

If I fail with these two options .... may I please get back to you.?