What do you believe is achieved by "bedding" brakes?
I am an engineer so I want an engineering and/or physics discussion of just exactly what people think bedding means or achieves. I don't want any hokey BS. If you can't tell me what physical characteristics change then don't even bother.
I'd especially appreciate hearing an explanation of how this relates to disc warping, given what I just read. An engineering description, not "my grandad told me that on his old international harvester...".
To me a lot of what I hear sounds like the way some people polish rifle barrels... which will void your warranty with the McMillan brothers (vendors of ultimate quality sniper, tactical and competition rifles).
Why do I ask? Because in the UK, where I only once experienced warped discs and that was on a used car so I have no idea how they did it, I never heard any discussion of bedding brakes or resurfacing them. In 500,000 miles of unreasonably hard driving, we're talking 12-14000 miles for a set of tires and 25k for brakes, I never managed to warp them myself once.
I am an engineer so I want an engineering and/or physics discussion of just exactly what people think bedding means or achieves. I don't want any hokey BS. If you can't tell me what physical characteristics change then don't even bother.
I'd especially appreciate hearing an explanation of how this relates to disc warping, given what I just read. An engineering description, not "my grandad told me that on his old international harvester...".
To me a lot of what I hear sounds like the way some people polish rifle barrels... which will void your warranty with the McMillan brothers (vendors of ultimate quality sniper, tactical and competition rifles).
Why do I ask? Because in the UK, where I only once experienced warped discs and that was on a used car so I have no idea how they did it, I never heard any discussion of bedding brakes or resurfacing them. In 500,000 miles of unreasonably hard driving, we're talking 12-14000 miles for a set of tires and 25k for brakes, I never managed to warp them myself once.