On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Jake de Villiers
<crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think its the porosity of the cast iron; it will hold oil in its 'pores',
> sort of like a frying pan.� :-)
>
>

Exactly. Very porous material. Cleaning the rotors *well* (like more
than once) is one of those things I'll mention when I actually get
around to writing up a page on what I've learned from my front end
partial rebuild.

The thought of even a little bit of that protective greeze oozing out
of the pores and contaminating the new pads just doesn't seem right!
(though likely if any miniscule amount did transfer, it would burn off
pretty quick)

Neil.

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