[AT] de-greasing disc brakes; throttle speed

Steve Offiler soffiler at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 16:28:38 PDT 2015


Triumph T-100!   Cool bike!

SO

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> On Sep 27, 2015, at 2:37 PM, "Herb Metz" <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Throttle speed; that subject reminded me that Dad would occasionally ride my 
> 1948 Triumph T-100 motorcycle.  He did real good except when going slow he 
> wanted to just run in a high gear at or near an idle speed. On dirt roads 
> with a layer of sandy soil on top, there is always an engine load because 
> the layer is soft sand gives way (so the front tire is always trying to 
> climb this resulting small rise in the road).  Even a small load under idle 
> conditions on this bike results in a knocking (hammer) noise; probably not 
> bad but definitely concerning, and unnecessary.  Then he would remember my 
> encouraging him to run at couple thousand RPM and in a lower gear, which 
> solved the problem.
> Redline then was 6,500 RPM; today they are way above that.  Herb(GA)
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 7:54 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] de-greasing disc brakes
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> Interesting that you had good luck with the Farmalls with disc brakes, those
> are the ones dad fusses about the most! Guess he heard too many complaints
> about them while standing on the other side of the parts counter. I will say
> this, thank heavens for internal disc brakes--not only do they work good,
> they last a mighty long time. I'm glad I grew up on that style tractor!
> 
> Regarding the full throttle situation, all the tractors and combines here
> were run full throttle with a couple exceptions. We never ran the baler at
> full throttle, one particular bushog was only ran about 2/3 throttle (we had
> more tractor hooked to it than its gearboxes could stand--it was bad design
> on the bushog manufacturer), and cultivating tobacco when it was small--that
> was sometimes not much more than a fast idle. If we backed out of the
> throttle during tillage it was because the land was too rough or the corner
> of the field was too tight. On the flip side however, my dad has NEVER ran a
> lawnmower at full throttle. I have to encourage him even today to speed the
> engine up a bit.
> 
> John Hall
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Indiana Robinson
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 9:21 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] de-greasing disc brakes
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> I have always liked disk brakes. I guess the first tractor here with them
> was the MF-65-D-HA bought new. Next was the MF-165-D-HA that the 65 was
> traded on. It's still here. Many years ago we bought a very nice New Idea
> mounted picker (we had always used pull type pickers) and the friend that
> had owned it had used it on a Farmall M. We went looking for a good Super M
> to mount it on since we wanted the Farmall Super M improvements. More HP,
> thicker radiator, bigger clutch, live hydraulics and disk brakes. Worked
> well. Later I found my Farmall Super MTA to use with that picker for the TA
> and independent PTO. It also has disk brakes. A bit later we picked up the
> Farmall 400 (just because)  :-)  and it has disk brakes. I think the only
> other tractor here with disk brakes is my Minneapolis Moline R. Its disk
> brakes also work very well too.
> We did have a bit of a disk brake problem with the Farmalls. We bought new
> disks from Tractor Supply Stores that were only a small part of the price
> of the ones from IHC. They looked very good but just wouldn't grip well
> enough. We solved that by buying a full set from IHC and using one IHC disk
> and one TSC disk together on both the Super M and the Super MTA. They have
> always worked fine since.
> In regards to throttle settings... here we have always used full throttle
> for about any soil preparation job like plowing, disking etc. PTO jobs just
> depended on the job. Cultivating (when we still did it) was usually fairly
> low RPM unless the crop was pretty tall. I always felt that the engines
> were engineered to run at maximum governed speed when pulling the maximum
> load. I was always a bit surprised when guys talked about never running
> full throttle. (shrug)  A lot of clutches use weights to apply more
> pressure to the disk at higher RPM's and if you run at maximum load at
> lower RPM's I would expect more possibility of some slippage.
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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