Andy Ratcliffe, Rozone’s technical sales consultant, provides readers with the best advice about brake servicing and the most time-efficient options in technology currently on the market.
Every workshop is trying to save cash in any way possible and technicians not doubling up on tasks is vital to get the most out of each member of the workshop team. Because of all the obvious safety implications, cutting corners on brake servicing is not an option. But technician efficiency and using the best equipment for the job certainly is.
Many of the brake servicing options involve more than one technician and will also involve aggressive solvents, carrying the risk of overspray inhalation. Avoiding solvents and inhalation risk is also a critical factor for Health and Safety compliance. Technicians need a safe, nonhazardous process to clean and bleed braking systems.
Save time, save money
In the current economic climate, a real focus is to help our customers save money, so offering a solution that is a one-person operation is proving to be really appealing. Whoever is conducting the brake service, isn’t having to drag another technician away from their job to press the brake pedal to bleed the brake.
Leading proprietary washers push fluid in, so there is no build-up of air in the braking system. They can be wheeled about the workshop easily, used on standard ramps, cleaning solution gets poured back into the sink and there is no need to remove brake drums and all elements of the cleaning process are done in one place.
A one-person operation brake washer, such as the BCE500, offers cost-effective, economic, concentrated cleaning and no expensive service contract or waste collection is required, which is a big money saver.
A safe alternative to solvent and aerosol brake cleaning options, the air-powered cleaning system means no expensive aerosols or aggressive solvents and no brake dust is circulated. This also means it is non-hazardous and non-flammable and the risk of corrosion is removed.
