18 Oct
2007
18 Oct
'07
12:41 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 21:11 -0400, William Donzelli wrote:
That may be asbestos, so be careful if you clean it up. Modern brake
pads haven't used asbestos for a long time, but depending on how old the
computer is it could have been around when asbestos pads were...
Unless you mean it's full of metal and grit from regrinding brake discs
and drums, which seems to be common in the US (and with brake parts so
cheap and so important, something I've never seen the point of - but
let's not stray so far offtopic).
Gordon
Hmmm, asides
from our two Canadian tire stores (they have something, there are Twinax terminals
everywhere!)
My 8809 came from a tire store. I is probably just spare parts now,
because it is covered with brake grinding debris.