Originally Posted by tabetha
The pad material is just mixed up and stirred in a great big pot to cook it all together.
All pads will contain amounts of soft metals, performance pads do contain other things as well, which are sometimes very guarded secrets such as walnut shells.
Some brands do squeal more than others, taxi pads for example can squeal like buggery due to their hard nature.
tabetha
I value your knowledge ALOT on this forum m8 but im affraid they dont mix it in a big pot yes the compounds gets mixed together but then they get put into block moulds of a square shape before they get used with the certain backing plate that the power press compounds it together with heats of 180-200C to create your brake pad.Smelly job aswell as damn hot haha