Marin writes: >>>Actually, I DO extract the lead cores from No. 2 pencils,
but it's for our Range Rover,
> to keep the brake pads from squealing. Works like a charm. Not
> my idea, but "stolen" from a Rolls Royce mechanic I used to know. It's
how he
> (and other Rolls Royce shops) stopped the brakes on the cars they service
from
> squealing after the idiot government had the asbestos removed from brake
lining.<<<
my 'first' father-in-law worked at the Rolls factory in Crewe and, on one of
my infrequent visits I saw a bunch of apprentices cutting up pencils. When I
asked and was told what they were doing I asked if there wasn't another way.
The guy I was talking to said there wasn't so I wondered aloud why no-one
had contacted a pencil manufacturer to find out where they got their
graphite from to put in the pencils. There was an embarrassed silence but I
leaned later that they had gone ahead and done just that!
BTW last week I went to the Bolton Steam Museum, full of really old, big,
engines that used to power the old cotton mills in the 19th Century ( a
rough job mine, but someone has to do it). In a corner was a generator and
board built by Royce in the days before he met Rolls.
Best Cheers
Frank
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