[AT] Now Ralph Video -- disc brakes

[Ralph Goff]

On 12/27/2012 4:21 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> Ralph, thanks for yet another interesting video.
>
> How do those disc brakes on your 40 actually work?  Is there a caliper and
> brake pads that press against the disc?  Or does the disc get pressed
> against the outer housing?  And how did the old brake shoe type work, before
> you put the disc brakes on?
>
Dean , the original style Cockshutt drum and shoe brakes had an internal 
and external shoe that squeezed the open drum when the pedal was 
pressed. I guess when they were in new condition they might have been an 
adequate brake but I liked the newer style double disk brake that the 
newer series 50s had. And it was such an easy bolt on switch, nothing to 
change internally, just buy the drum housings and disks. Maybe I had to 
buy the spline extensions off the bull gears as well. It is so long ago 
that I forget. The local wrecker had a Co-op E5 (Cockshutt 50) in the 
yard and I just took the pieces I needed from that one.
Another advantage to the disk brakes, they took the same size 
replaceable lining as the Case 30 series tractors so I could get the new 
(rivet on) linings from the Case dealer.

Ralph in Sask.
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