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How not to clean brake pads

barney Member

Joined: Jun 2014

Posts: 29

08-22-2014, 09:40 PM

I decided to clean my front disk brake pads by heating them. Instead of sticking them in the oven, I took the medieval approach and threw them into a pile of glowing charcoal. Apparently not a good idea, it took just a few minutes to completely turnoff the pads leaving the bare metal plates.

LOL.. off to my LBS to get replacements.

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