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Originally posted by stealth2
OK... the dished plate is actually one of the steels and you usually have two which "face away from each other". The idea is, to stop chatter and slipping when you take off. Over time the dishing reduces through use and heat and this has an impact on the wear rate of the plates. The reduction in the dishing renders the plates more flat and so the overall stack height reduces. Apparently, the stack height is critical (particularly in slipper cluteches which wear more quickly). The dished steels should be checked from time to time and replaced if they have lost the cooncave or dish effect. If the stack height gets below 0.4 -0.5 (as the distance measured from the central splines) then you get increased wear and the plates wear against the basket more significantly.
Just to say .... I'm no expert on this and am repeating what Rick Hackett told me when replacing my plates and basket before going abroad over a week ago. I am only sadly spending time writing this on a sunny Sunday because my bike was nicked in Holland on Thursday - just so you don't think I am complete anorak (only slightly!!!!!!!!). |
I would describe them as facing each other! Take a dish bowl, sitting on a work surface. Now put another upside down on to the top of it.
that is how they should face, not the other way around.
04-Sep-2005, 17:16 
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