[Shotimes] brakes'friction material

[Jim and Debbie Leyden]

At the risk of being flamed from here to kingdom come...

Asbestos has been banned from usage for ANY purpose for a good many years.
The reason being that Asbestos fibers are barb shaped and will lodge in your
lungs and cannot be gotten out.  Once they are in your lungs they cause
cancer.  I have worked in several old manufacturing plants that had used
asbestos to insulate steam piping.  You would not believe the precautions
that one has to go through before handling asbestos.  I seriously doubt that
the material to make an asbestos friction lining can be purchased anymore
ANYWHERE with the possible exception of the former Soviet Union and
considering that the material has to be shaped by grinding in order to make
a brake pad, I'm SURE that no reputable manufacturer would even touch the
stuff.  Furthermore, stop to consider what type of containment vessel would
be required to manufacture the pads in.  After all the gyrations one would
have to go through in order to safely manufacture the pads, the cost would
be so high that you might as well just make a brand new SHO out of pure
gold, it would be cheaper than a set of asbestos brake pads.  Then consider
the risks to your health (and everyone else's) after you have installed and
used the pads for some time.  Whenever you work on brakes, you inhale some
of the brake dust.  In this case you will be inhaling asbestos powder which
is still barb shaped and will lodge in your lungs.

In short, anyone that seriously listens to this "mysteryman" is a fool and
anyone that sends him money is even more foolish.

Jim
'93 MTX
semi-metallic brake pads on 96 braks that stop JUST FINE!


----- Original Message -----
From: <mysteryman@x-press.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:33 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] brakes'friction material


> Hi all, I ran across your site by accident and saw what Leigh Smith
> had written about brake pads. There is on thing that was not
> mentioned. The major problem with friction material today is, is that
> there is no more asbestos being used in the friction material !!!
> The industry has not had enough time to properly develop non asbestos
> friction material to replace the asbestos. This is a major problem on
> older cars that were originally designed for asbestos. My testing of
> many of the currently available pads has shown that many of the cars
> will no longer even stop with in the federal standards that were in
> effect when the cars were produced. I have decided that I am going to
> have pads/shoes that properly stop my cars and trucks come hell or
> high water. So I contacted a few people I know in the friction
> material biz and convinced them to produce the asbestos friction
> material that I want to use.  I was an engineer at Chrysler for 32
> years and was able to call in a few favors. I have all the specs on
> most all the automotive frictions that have been produced in the last
> 40 years. I will be having 3 of the best produced next month. This is
> a hush hush deal. The co. that is producing this for me does not wish
> to be known. If  you SHO guys would like some pads for your cars I
> can have them run when I do mine. This is a one time deal !! There
> will be no more ever produced in the USA ever again. I will have
> enough for myself and a few friends to last us the rest of our lives.
> Contact me if you and your guys have any interest in getting any.
> Thx...///T.E
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