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Is it just me or are the early serial number galaxy jet's brakes hard to get used to?
After extending the gear, pump the brakes 3x.
Not sure how this gets reversed on airplanes or carbon brakes but I'm all ears.
My understanding was that they would glaze if they didn't get hot enough. I was once told by a D.O. That if you were going to use carbon brakes then light the suckers up because small light applications were harder on them than heavy use. The reason being that they wold glaze and become less effective causing more wear as they 'de-glazed' and the brakes would bite. I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I've never been able to prove the other two theories presented though experimentation.
My ability to explain glazing would be uninterpretable to the layperson due to my advanced degrees in metallurgy, chemistry and training - or I am full of crap but still have an idea of what brake glazing is and don't want to F it up. If you think anything but the latter, you probably think that glazing happens from brakes not getting hot enough... I will offer that I am just having fun svcta - so take it easy... BTW - I don't know that my examples - others writings are scientifically accurate, but they demonstrate what I believe to be correct.
After you have installed the new pads, it is a good idea to break them in (unless the pads are the "fully cured" type that do not require an initial break-in period). Not breaking in a new set of pads increases your risk of pad glazing and brake noise. A driver can glaze and ruin a new set of pads if he fails to go easy on the brakes for the first 200 miles. If he overheats the brakes by mashing down on the brake pedal at every stop light, he can cook the resin in the pads before it can cure and glaze the pads.
Disk brake pads do sometimes develop a glaze which causes squeaking, etc. IIRC, heat can sometimes form a glaze on the surface of ceramic brake pads. In layman's terms, the glaze is like a layer of glass, formed out of the ceramic material in the pad.
My ability to explain glazing would be uninterpretable to the layperson due to my advanced degrees in metallurgy, chemistry and training - or I am full of crap but still have an idea of what brake glazing is and don't want to F it up. If you think anything but the latter, you probably think that glazing happens from brakes not getting hot enough... I will offer that I am just having fun svcta - so take it easy... BTW - I don't know that my examples - others writings are scientifically accurate, but they demonstrate what I believe to be correct.
After you have installed the new pads, it is a good idea to break them in (unless the pads are the "fully cured" type that do not require an initial break-in period). Not breaking in a new set of pads increases your risk of pad glazing and brake noise. A driver can glaze and ruin a new set of pads if he fails to go easy on the brakes for the first 200 miles. If he overheats the brakes by mashing down on the brake pedal at every stop light, he can cook the resin in the pads before it can cure and glaze the pads.
Disk brake pads do sometimes develop a glaze which causes squeaking, etc. IIRC, heat can sometimes form a glaze on the surface of ceramic brake pads. In layman's terms, the glaze is like a layer of glass, formed out of the ceramic material in the pad.