There is nothing wrong with turning drums.There is a specification of how thick they need to be.If you dont cut them thinner than that specification they will work fine.Ive turned lots of drums on big trucks and never had a lot of trouble with drums fracturing.Usually if you look at pieces of a broken drum,its when they are a lot newer.They fracture because of being hit with a sledge hammer or a flaw when they make them.You dont see them break a lot from being worn out,but they can.If you cut them too thin then you could have trouble.You might be able to turn them 2 or 3 times before you got them close enough to spec to throw away.Some last better than others.
If you put new shoes on old drums,just like if you did your car the same way,it would wear the shoes into the grooves and work a long time.Its best to replace them if they are chewed up bad,but it does reduce the stopping power until you get them worn in.There is nothing wrong with putting new shoes on and using worn drums.Its done all the time by everybody running trucks.If you constantly run steep mountains then you want all the brakes you can get,and they even have mountain brakes.On flat ground mostly, regular brakes will work real good if they are adjusted right,have good pads,and drums not worn out of specs.Overheating is not so much of a problem on flat ground.Its those long downgrades that heat up brakes.but regular brakes adjusted good will work for that too as long as you know what you are doing.
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