Re: [GMCnet] The KISS Parking Brake [message #220596] |
Fri, 30 August 2013 23:21 |
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hnielsen2
Messages: 1434 Registered: February 2004 Location: Alpine CA
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Sully
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On Aug 30, 2013, at 20:54, Todd Sullivan <sgltrac@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think people should stop thinking outside the box. Why don't we just debate all new simple ideas to death prior to any real world data gathering of the benefit and actually do nothing. At least till everyone agrees it will work.
> Any parking brake that works some of the time is better than one that doesn't work at all.
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> God didn't have a partner.
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> Todd Sullivan
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> Sully
> 77 royale
> Seattle
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> On Aug 30, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Kerry Pinkerton <Pinkertonk@MCHSI.com> wrote:
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>> Emery Stora wrote on Fri, 30 August 2013 21:47
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>>> As a parking brake my concern is that one might park on a grade and leave the motorhome and something like a seal on the piston in the master cylinder fails and the motorhome could go uncontrolled down the grade.
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>>> If that part failed when I was driving at least I could steer it.
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>>> I really don't see any advantage over a wheel chock.
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>>> Sorry. Just my opinion.
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>>> Emery Stora
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>> Emery, you have no reason to be sorry. You're certainly entitled to your opinion.
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>> I'm not selling anything and don't really care if anyone copies the idea. However, I am concerned if people don't understand the point I was attempting to make. Obviously, I must not have communicated effectively what I intended to say.
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>> I don't THINK I ever suggested it was a full time parking brake...other people did but not me. I see it as an emergency parking brake.
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>> In other words, how would you get your coach to hold on a hill WHILE you put the chock in place??? Not too hard if you're not alone but if you are.....
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>> Personally, I ABSOLUTELY would never trust ANY parking brake on any slope over a few degrees. That is why God invented rocks and chocks... :lol:
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>> Kerry Pinkerton
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>> North Alabama, near Huntsville,
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>> 77 Eleganza II, "The Lady", 403CI, also a 76 Eleganza being re-bodied as an Art Deco car hauler
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