anyone used a drum brake on a springer fork?

[bigbutterbean]

I will eventually be installing a springer fork on my bike, what i guess you would call the older schwinn style, with just the one spring up near the headset, and will also be buying a 24" front wheel with sturmey archer x-fd drum brake. is there any concern about the drum brake putting too much stress on the fork?

 

[azbill]

I have over 18,000 miles on my stretch, using a S/A X-FD front drum
most of those miles had the brake stopping up to 350+ lbs of trailer/grandkids
all together I have over 40k on the hub (the stretch is the 4th bike the wheel has been on)
the last bike the hub was on (a schwinn jaguar from target) had a springer as well
I do need to change the brake shoes finally, but they seem to be out of stock at the moment

 

[bigbutterbean]

cool, so no worries about the fork breaking then. good to know, as I have just about every detail of my rebuild planned. Going to convert my cruiser to 6 speed and install a shift kit, paint it black, 26" 6 speed rear cassette with 12 gauge spokes, 24" husky cycles front wheel with x-fd drum brake and 11g spokes, extended muffler, springer fork, fat tires. waiting on a fellow member to ship a springer fork out to me. gonna be a little while till I get the rest of the parts together.