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Troul- Your goals are correct IMO. And I do much what you aim for too. But I tend to split hairs and don't like rotor rub when not braking so I leave a tad of gap between the fixed pad and the rotor. My customers don't musually have the skills or motivation to fine tune things if they remove and reinstall a wheel, so my tuning condition has a tad more gap for this then what I might do for myself.
BTW when one repositions a pad (usually the fixed side) it's relationship WRT the rotor can often slightly change. The pad shifts it's angle, it rotates within the caliper and/or the pad's backing changes the overlap with the caliper's body. All these slightly change the vibration that we hear as squeal. Andy
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Last edited by Andrew R Stewart; 10-13-18 at 08:23 AM.
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