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- From: jws@billy.mlb.semi.harris.com (James W. Swonger)
- Subject: Re: disc brakes again
- References: <1992Sep13.002743.6045@bohra.cpg.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:34:31 GMT
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- Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL
- Keywords: area snd effectibveness
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- Drum brake systems have two shoes, both of which are sweeping the drum
- surface. Doesn't that double the swept area/revolution?
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- The rear end for my project car has 12" drums which by my reckoning
- gives 226 in2 swept area per wheel. The current rear drums fit inside
- the big boy.
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- Is the main component of fade shoe surface heating? Metal heating?
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