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- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Subject: Re: Handbrakes /discbrakes
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.185526.20520@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
- References: <715525312.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> <3970065@hpsad.sad.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:55:26 GMT
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- In article <3970065@hpsad.sad.hp.com> ggg@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Gary Goodlund) writes:
- >Another solution which is used on some Porsches and on the Ferrari Mondials,
- >is to have a small mechanically operated drum brake in the center of the
- >rear disc. Since the grip required to stop a disc brake is substantially
- >more than that required for a drum, this is an effective solution.
-
- this system has been available from Ate for a very long time (since the
- mid-60s, at least) and works very well. it appears on the early saab 99s
- (much better than the nasty girling floating caliper that saab switched to
- in 1975) and in Alfa Spiders and early Alfa GTVs beginning around 1967
- (as i recall.) i never really understood why people insisted on cooking
- up outrageously complex disk brake calipers to supply handbrakes when
- the disk/drum system worked reasonably well.
-
- oh well,
- richard
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