John McLaughlin wrote:

The oven cleaner takes a little longer - about 25 - 30 minutes, depending on
your patience. The gunk that didn't melt off scraped off easily with a
plastic scraper. Hosed it off with water, dried it and wd-40ed it. Maybe 45
minutes start to finish. Mine is pretty clean, but yours looks brand new!

John

Dale Smith wrote:

A long time ago, I seem to remember reading that glass bead blasting was
recommended to race prep connecting rods and "relieve internal stresses".  Is this
true?  or just another "hype"?

If true, it would be a plus in it's favor, but then again, the rotors don't fail
anyway, right?

Dale Smith

I am not sure they use glass beads for that. Some sort of blasting medium
is used to increase the fatigue life of metals. As I recall it is called
shot peening.

I don't think anybody has ever broken a rotor. Sure, if an apex seal breaks
it can put some big gouges in the rotor however.

Paul Lamar
 
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