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Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake

To: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake
From: Ross MacPherson <arm@unix.infoserve.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:16:01 -0800
At 04:25 PM 11/26/96 -0500, you wrote:

>I've read the other replies to this query, but I don't quite agree with
>them.  The fly-off handle is a stock item.  Most brakes ratchet as you
>pull them on, then you push a button to release them, holding the button
>down until the brake is fully off.  The fly-off operates differently.  You
>pull the brake on, then push the button to set the brake.  When you want
>to release it, you simply pull up a bit more, let it go, and it "flies
>off."  
>
>You can do hand brake turns nicely with it, as somebody else pointed out,
>and if you are doing a le Mans start, I suppose it saves a half second or
>so. 
>
Correct as usual Ray.  I was going to respond to the original post but
realised it had been covered fairly well in other responses. Regarding the
"stockness" I don't know about A's or later Magnettes but I believe all T's
and earlier did indeed leave Abingdon with fly-off handbrakes.

 
   ___        \______           Ross MacPherson 
  / __ \ __ /       /------|)   arm@unix.infoserve.net
/  (___)---------/ (___)        Vancouver, BC, Canada
 1947 MG-TC 3528                1966 MGB-GT   


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