Re: Aftermarket brake drums

"jim beam" <spamvortex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> i'm fine with some of the after-market disks and drums, just don't buy 
> cheap chinese crap.  they use crap iron, they don't know how to heat 
> treat, and they don't know about stress risers.

I suspect that the Chinese foundries _do_ know their business.
Their business just happens to be meeting a market demand for
cheaper, crappy products. I'll bet my bottom dollar that castings
can be made less expensive by eliminating the fillets that prevent
stress cracking. Less-complex pattern making, perhaps?