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Any file recommendations please?
For brake pads - taking the glaze off.
Seeing as I'll be heading to Toolstation for some thread lock, what kind of file should I be looking at? My current ones are nabbed from old toolboxes, have no handle and are past their best.
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I use P120 sandpaper. Having blown a rim on a rear wheel I've become been especially careful to look after my rims and brake blocks. I keep meaning to get a hook and pick set to winkle out the little shards of rim fragment and other junk that the pads pick up. (Screwfix do a set by Teng.) I'm not sure that a file is necessarily the best tool for the job.
Fine sandpaper (120 grit), have it on a flat surface,hold the pad flat on it, and then rub the pad across the sandpaper, not the other way round.
The block paving on my drive is perfect.
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I just use my stubble.
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Just use emery boards (as used for fingernails).
Pretty much anything.
I used 250 grit sandpaper. Don't use anything super fine like polishing sticks or wet and dry though!
I think you're overthinking this dottigirl. Any fairly fine to medium file would do the job perfectly.
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