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- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: what larges vehicles use for brakes (was: disk brakes again)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.205925.6973@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 20:59:25 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.020550.28190@julian.uwo.ca> <ia85428@pro-haven.cts.com>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
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- In article <ia85428@pro-haven.cts.com> shadow@pro-haven.cts.com (Blaine Hufnagle) writes:
- >Normal freight trains use pseudo-drum brakes, as the shoes apply directly
- >against the rolling surface. Look at a freight car some time when you are
- >sitting at a RR crossing some time.
-
- these are drum-like, certainly, but are distinctly different from
- automotive drum brakes because they are on the outside of the wheel;
- they cool better, and gas and dust don't build up between the shoe and
- the wheel the way that they do between a drum and a shoe in an automotive
- disk brake.
-
- richard
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