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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