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Subject:Re: Why Bigger Brakes Was Cause of brake rotor warping
From:Edward Maglott
Date:Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:05:09 -0400

Hey, I got my warped rotors turned!  The auto tech instructor at the
college where I work let me watch while the first one was running.  You
could see by looking at where the cutters were taking material off the disk
that it was warped.  By warped I mean the places the cutter was removing
material on one side was the opposite of where the cutter on the other side
was removing material.  By opposite I mean around the circumference of the
disk.  Like at 12 o'clock vs 6 o'clock.  The article linked earlier seemed
to indicate this was very very rare.  Or did I not read that right?

Edward

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> Jacobson Brakes, the company that made them popular.
>
> ---- Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > RE: Compression Braking devices or "Jake" Brakes
> > Trivia question for this thread:  Where does the term "Jake Brakes"
> > come from?  No Wiki now, I'll check with NSA to see if you cheated.
> > First person with the right answer gets 100 points that can be used
> > for whatever that person wants :)
>
> --
> David McNeely
>