I never had to pay much attention to this, but now that I am transitioning to owner/maintainer, I have to get it straight. My previous understanding from any and all who cared to give me a straight answer, was: Glazed brake pads needed to be roughed up or replaced. Now I find the Cleveland Brake folks telling me that a glaze on my smooth brake pads is needed for best braking action. And they give a simple procedure to glaze the brake pads. Cleveland Brake also cautions you that your conditioned brakes may have enough authority to raise the tail on conventional gear aircraft (such as a KR-2). The same info is in the AOPA Pilot magazine, February 2006 issue. This is not sandpaper I'm dealing with now, so I have to update my internal data base. I excerpted the article and put it on my weblog: http://websites.expercraft.com/sidwood/index.php?q=log_entry&log_id=3897 7
Sid Wood Tri-gear KR-2 N6242 Mechanicsville, MD, USA smw...@md.metrocast.net
