Re: Brake Dust
Originally Posted by onehundred80
Franc, I cannot argue with any of this really so, true, true, true, true, true, but it is the rubbing of the pad and rotor that abrades the pad and to a lessor extent the rotor that gives us the dust mostly and not the heat. Just like filing metal. Heat is generated in braking as well as filing. Oh and true.
Sorry Franc, I could not resist.
Can you make the nitrogen and dust connection?
NOPE!
roadster with a stick
BTW I do go with your clarification. But that said, energy can be absorbed by friction or dynamically. Either way the
energy is dissipated by heat.
Last edited by Franc Rauscher; Apr 21, 2009 at 03:50 PM.