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Re: [TR] Brake disks

To: "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Brake disks
From: TERRY SMITH <terryrs@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 10:05:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: triumphs <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Delivered-to: mharc@autox.team.net
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Thanks, Bill.  I hadn't priced them yet, just assumed they'd be expensive.


Is there a type people like best?  Slotted?  Not slotted?

> On November 9, 2018 at 11:23 PM "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net> wrote:
> 
>     IMO, At $30ea replace them, it will cost half that to get them turned and 
> you still have a 60 year old rotor.  
>     Bill
> 
>     Sent from my Handspring Treo
> 
>     On Nov 9, 2018, at 7:20 PM, TERRY SMITH < terryrs@comcast.net 
> mailto:terryrs@comcast.net > wrote:
> 
> 
>     Hello, everyone.  Haven't been able to call my dependable machinist yet, 
> where the only issue I've ever had was when I asked them to ream some lines 
> for me.  Wound up with a cracked one that caused problems that you can 
> imagine. 
> 
> 
>     Question is, is it more cost--and long-term--effective to simply replace 
> front rotors with new ones from one of the Big Three, or to ask they be 
> skimmed  by a quality machinist.  I feel those "bumps" when I slow to a stop 
> telling me that the rotors have high spots.  Am suspecting the original 
> rotors being 60 years old are tired and ready to retire.
> 
> 
>     Thoughts?
> 
> 
>     Terry Smith '59 TR3A
> 
>     New Hamsphire
> 
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lt-style">Hello, everyone.&#160; Haven&#39;t been able to call my dependabl=
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le">Question is, is it more cost--and long-term--effective to simply replac=
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