Ok, Ok, Uncle!!! They warp, twist, and even shout. Man, I'm glad I didn't
dip into the old "work hardening" chapter. LOL
Mark
"steve preston" <steve239dak@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:20021128045426.34315.qmail@web40902.mail.yahoo.com...
>
> OK,I was trying to be nice,but now the gloves are
> on,and all bets are off. Let me at you!! :)
>
> Let`s get three things straight,right off the bat.
> This is for those who doubt my credentials:
>
> 1) I have replaced several brake pads,and three rotors
> in my lifetime. So there is little doubt that I think
> I know what I`m talking about.
> 2) Yes,my "formal" brake training may be somewhat
> limited,but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last
> night. :)
> 3) Sometimes,I get these magazines,and they have
> rotors sometimes,and I can tell by the pictures what
> they are. Not all the time.
>
> My main reason for believing that rotors warp,is
> because I have been told that. By
> hard-working,church-going people. People that are not
> ashamed to be called Americans,nor afraid to dream of
> a little place called Hope. And they would have no
> reason to lie to me. Period. :) Secondly,on my
> Dak,when I depress the brake pedal,I can feel a
> pulsation that I have,at times,envisioned as being a
> warpage. Now it may be that I am actually feeling the
> result of what could be considered a molecular
> "metamorphosis",if you will,resulting in varying
> frictional properties of the disc surface,which could
> tend to become exacerbated over time,making the
> presumption of warpage all the more tempting,albeit
> erroneous. Yes,that is possible. But I feel IN MY
> HEART that rotors warp. There is no guage or spec
> sheet that can verify a gut feeling. It is something
> that I feel deeply inside. And is it not man`s
> soulfelt passion that rights the wrongs of the
> world,and indeed,sets the benchmark of all that the
> frailty of human existence could ever hope to achieve?
> Is not the pinnacle of Opus the Achilles Heel of
> Odysseus?? Does it not take three licks to get to the
> Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
>
> I will now clear my mailbox in anticipation of your
> apology.
>
> Steve P.
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