Posted by jlb on May 31, 2002 at 12:29:50:
In Reply to: Swedging Your Rotors posted by Keith C. on May 31, 2002 at 12:04:40:
Your post prompted me to look it up. There was a reference to this a while ago, and the term is swage, not swedge. A swedge is a safety device for technical rock climbing. If I understand it right, rotors have a tapered axle on the top which rotates in a similarly tapered bearing (hole) in the top plate. If the top axle of the rotor wears, it cannot be enlarged so the tapered hole in the top plate must be 'swaged', i.e., forced to a smaller diameter. Then the axle and bearing hole can be machined in some way to rematch them, removing unwanted slop in the bearing.
swage
NOUN: 1. A tool used in bending or shaping cold metal.
2. A stamp or die for marking or shaping metal with a hammer.
3. A swage block.
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: swaged, swag·ing, swag·es
To bend or shape by or as if by using a swage.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, ornamental border, from Old French souage.