RE: grooved disks increasing brake disc area....

["Nick Koleszar" <npk@domain.elided>]

are you kidding me?

are there really disks out there with this design?

nk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Shorey [mailto:bshorey@domain.elided]
> Sent: 08 April 2002 02:57
> To: npk@domain.elided; alfa@domain.elided
> Subject: RE: grooved disks increasing brake disc area....
> 
> 
> > I am still trying to figure this one out. Grooved or slotted, 
> either way,
> > how have you increased the surface area? In addition, if you still have
> the
> > same size pads, how have you made any difference to the area being
> clamped?
> 
> If you cut a line along the radius of a grooved rotor and looked 
> at it from
> the side, you'd see something that looks like this:
> 
> /\/\/\/\/\/\
> 
> Where stock would look like this:
> 
> ____________
> 
> Once the pad beds into the rotor, you have increased the surface 
> area of pad
> to rotor.
> 
> bs

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