anyone know of anywere in the teesside area that does this ?

 

Don't waste your money, it will come back and vibrate usually caused by DTV rather than warping that always gets blamed.
If still wanting to any decent machine shop with a lathe can do them, but make sure the are BACK SKIMMED, otherwise you have even less chance of a good job.
tabetha

 

your best bet is probably flavells in thornaby mate

 

Try

Teesside Motor Factors, 15-19 Station Street,MIDDLESBROUGH TS1 1SR,
Tel: 01642 915442

I've used them in the past

 

any reason you are skimming them as opposed to buying new ones?

 

Take it for a drive on a beach. Sand the bastards back flat.

 

pitty you werent closer, i just skimmed my discs yesterday, machine is still set up not sure what tabetha means though by back skimmed?

 

I must say i agree with tabetha, warped or cooked discs will not recover from a skim, but slightly pitted or corroded ones will. (most fords sit all winter waiting on better weather so the discs can suffer lol)

 

This is what I thought, unless it's a massively rare car, surely buying new disks would be the best option

 

I think it means skimming the front and back in the same setup to maintain parallelism of the two faces.

 

i see, cant think of any other way i would do it other than both faces in the same op.

 

 

trade secrets lol

 

I used to work for toyota and used to do disc skimming every week cause brakes on toyota used to be shite. Tbh i wouldnt bother. Just buy some new discs.

 

Again, depends on why they need skimmed, if it is to make them flat again for new pads or to remove pitting then i say skim, if its because they are cooked then buy new.

 

Correct, though I have seen a brake specialist skim a face, take the disc out then put back in lathe and skim the other side, when the problem was the faces weren't true to the hub face!
I couldn't believe what I was seeing from geoff at high spec!!
tabetha

 

lol, amature! be lucky to get it within a couple thou that way, even with soft jaws, not good enough. as long as the face of the disc is filed/emeryed smooth and the fixture is faced flat in the lathe (as shown) then they will always come out spot on, and it makes it a very quick and repeatable operation if you have several to do.

 

Now that, is the word of the fucking day.