Re: giant monster truck brakes
"Orson Wells as CitizenCain" <[email protected]>
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"richard" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Watching the tv show on discovery channel tonight, See, THIS is how you know it's the real Bullis making the post. At some point, he mentions television and takes what he saw like the Bible. > they showed how the > brakes on these huge things and how they were assembled. > > Instead of one little pad trying to stop all that mass, there are > layers of geared pads within a wheel housing. As this arrangement > causes an extreme heat problem, the pads are cooled with hydraulic > oil. > > I think maybe the automotive and trucking industry in particular > should look at how this style of braking could be employed into cars > and trucks. I never did like the fact that one little pad that covers > only a tenth of the wheel is trying to stop the wheel. > If you paid attention to the damn road you wouldn't have that problem.