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Date:         Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:51:23 -0700
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: New Front Brake Rotor Question
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
In-Reply-To:  <49d233bd.01f6600a.3392.53fd@mx.google.com>
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:15 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 10:58 AM 3/31/2009, Gregory Smith wrote:
>>
>> From talking to my automotive tech friend, the omni-directional scuffing
>> is more to do with reducing harmonics when the brakes are first used
>> that actual effectiveness.  For some reason people hate noisy brakes.
>
> Yes, they aim to produce a random non-directional non-repeating
> pattern so as not to excite oscillation between pad and disk.
>
>




Thanks for the explanation David and Greg. That makes sense.


Neil.




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