Practically Classics Forum

When I seen this I thought I'd better repost it!

BlackDOHC of neons.org wrote:A customer came into the shop today saying his Explorer
just started making a brake noise. I checked it out and this
is what I found....
it definitely just started making a grinding noise.

That's asbestos-free pads for you!

Seriously? No way would so wasted a slice of the disc have remained true in use, I reckon that's almost certainly been turned down for comic effect.

Moved to "Off Topic" as yet again this has nothing whatever to do with classic cars.

As John says, looks like somebody's been doing some turning practice to me, very likely a hoax.

Wouldn't it wear from both sides rather than one? Definately looks like it's been turned down on a lathe on that one side, Surely as you said that would have warped or shattered.

But if a pad on one side failed and it was the metal base of the pad
against the disk while the other pad was okay.

It would have welded itself to the disk long before now, given the state of that disk and the number of miles it would have had to have done.

Still made me look and think no way, just how???????

Mitsuru wrote:But if a pad on one side failed and it was the metal base of the pad
against the disk while the other pad was okay.

I hear what you're saying, but in that case, where the wear is predominantly (or all, in this case as far as I can tell) on one face of the disc, the uneven heating of the surface would have deformed [the disc] to the point where it would have shattered long before it got that far down.

I think that someone's apprentice has had that attached to a face plate and taken his or her frustration out on it.

Next time I'm perched in front of a suitable lathe, I'm half tempted to reproduce that disc and start a similar web-based rumour of my own.

I don't know what you are all going on about, there is LOADS of meat left on that.
look at this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCs6DPAU6tE