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1 A Yes.
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2 Q What is chamfering?
3 A Well, it is basically the same process of
4 trying to make the lining fit the new curvature of the
5 drum. That was done any number of ways.
6 Historically, back in the '30s and '40s and
7 '50s, you could actually shim the brake linings on the
8 edges to make it fit or in the middle to make it fit,
9 but there were different ways to make it fit the
10 contour of the drum.
11
Q
Now, other than theblow outprocedure
that
12 you described, did the other manipulations of the
13 friction products create any dust when you did those
14 procedures?
15 A Well, in the garage -- first of all, we
16 would take off the hub and blow it out with the air
17 hose.
18 When you took off the drum, you dumped it
19 onto the floor and the material was on the floor and
20 we would have to then come back and sweep it up, and
21 we just used a broom, so we created more dust when we