I don't turn a rotor to remove an edge. Mount it on a drive wheel and spin slowly while I use a 4" disc grinder to remove the edge. If you hold the grinder at the right angle, it will drive the rotor for you.
Done this many times. -- Peter Arnold Windsor, CT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Hertzing" <phertz...@gmail.com> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:14:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [MBZ] OT Brake Rotor rant Okay All This weekend I replaced brakes on Saturday morning on my 97 volvo 960 185K. Pulled the rear rotors and they had a large ridge (big enough to get really close to the caliper). Clearly they were the never turned factory rotors with 185,000 miles. Pulled em off and drove to my local bumper to bumper (best of the evil parts empire in my town). They said - we don't turn rotors anymore, but I'll sell you new one for almost the same price as turning them. Pulled the new ones and they were about twice the price as turning them, and when we pulled out the micrometer, were actually thinner then the old ones. I said no thanks. Drove all around town and finally found a Midas to turn my old rotors. All of the parts stores would sell me new ones, but didn't turn them anymore, even the stores like NAPA that primarily cater to repair shops would no longer turn rotors. Anybody else experience this lately? What are every ones thoughts on new vs. turning the old. On all of my Lincoln towncar limos the cheap parts store replacements rotors last for about 25K without warping and they are then to thin to turn. If I order the rotors from ford, the last about 75K, which in limo land is only about 18 months. Thanks for Listening. Peter P.S. the rotors were well within specs for turning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090915/34c3f3eb/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090915/5ddea457/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
