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Charles Radloff
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• Phoenix, AZ, USA |
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 Posted:9/4/2003 10:53 |
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http://www.wheelersoffroad.com/fordbrakes.htm
The slotted cross drilled rotors are nice and its only $60 more a pair to have the Cryogenically treated thanks Larry for this web site. Anyone have any info on these??? |
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LANDYOT
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• Newport News, VA, USA |
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• Registered on 7/15/2003 |
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 Posted:9/4/2003 18:23 |
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The USPS (and other fleet operators) uses cryo-treated rotors and drums on their fleet of vehicles. Studies have shown useful service life increased 4-fold over standard non-treated parts. In addition, they have found increased wear and performance characteristics by cryo-treating the PADS & SHOES, too ... non-metallic parts benefit from cryo-treating, too!
A lot of race teams also use this technology. I did a lot of reading on this subject when researching the positive effects of cryo-treating machine tooling for our use in building nuclear powered aircraft carriers & submarines. Many manufacturers, including some of the largest firearm manufacturers in the USA, use cryo-treated tooling to increase the tool's life between sharpening. Firearm barrels (typically rifles) also benefit from cryo-treatment.
The biggest advantage of cryo-treating over heat-treating is that cryo-treatment goes all the way through the subject material. Heat-treating only affects the outer surfaces of metal. If you sharpen a heat-treated cutting tool, and remove several thousandths of the external surface, you've then exposed non-treated material, requiring another dose of heat-treat. Once a tool is cryo-treated, it can be re-sharpened until there's no metal left to sharpen, because the metal's treatment is 100%.
If you want more info, e-mail me & I will reply with a good article I have in pdf-format.
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