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Re: [VintageLambo] Re: Inventions |
Chad Bolles |
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| Not the ones I have seen.The ones I saw were on the outside of a disk, like I said strange. Chad Bolles > > It was 1950 through 1954, I think, and they were a > strange sort of brake that did include a disc shaped > component, but they were never used again. > > They used what were really twin disc shaped brake > shoes that spread apart to rub against the inner > surface of a cast iron drum, and the system was > designed to produce a lighter pedal due to a servo > effect, rather than to have less fade or more power, > the usual reasons we like disc brakes. > > While this is often quoted as the first US use of > disc brakes, I"m not sure I"d agree, as the basic > disc brake design is a disc clamped between two > friction surfaces, and the Chrysler system didn"t do > this. I don"t know that using brake shoes that > happen to be disc shaped, inside a brake drum, > counts. > > Bill > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life"s Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/9jLplB/TM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to |
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