Patent ID: 7104366

Claim:
A method of arranging carbon brake disks for an aircraft brake unit, said brake unit comprising: a first group of stators coupled to a torque tube alternating with a first group of rotors coupled to a corresponding wheel; a first pressure plate (“PP”) at one end of said torque tube, being adjacent to a braking piston, said braking piston capable of traveling a predetermined wear stroke; a first back plate (“BP”) at the other end of said torque tube, the method comprising the steps of: a) placing the first group of rotors and the first group of stators between the first PP and the first BP, each rotor of said first group of rotors having a thickness greater than a thickness of each stator of said first group of stators; b) when said braking piston travels said predetermined wear stroke, retracting said braking piston and inserting a first spacer between said first PP and said braking piston; c) when said braking piston travels said predetermined wear stroke, and each of said first group of stators has an ending thickness, removing said first spacer, replacing said first PP and BP with a second PP and BP, and replacing said first group of stators with a second group of stators, each stator of said second group of stators having a thickness that is greater than said stator ending thickness; d) when said braking piston travels said predetermined wear stroke, retracting said braking piston and inserting a second spacer between said second PP and said braking piston; e) when said braking piston travels said predetermined wear stroke, and each rotor of said first group of rotors has an ending thickness, replacing said first group of rotors with a second group of rotors, each rotor of said second group of rotors having a greater thickness than said rotor ending thickness.