david a luciani wrote:
Chip and Jeff,
i agree with you that we should make the karts as safe as possible.
but,before we start adding non vintage parts to karts why don't we look over the lost brakes issue from a causative view. ie;: research before reaction......dave
Dave,
You are right on here ... this is what I wanted us to do here in this forum, report observed failures or equipment safety issues, discuss why the failure or situation occurred, and then discuss solutions.... thus leading to a very important and constructive result.
Everyone,
For instance, the most recurring issue I know of, are the plastic brake lines popping out of calipers. What would cause this to happen? .... improper tightening of the brass fitting (too loose, too tight???), wrong size/type plastic brake line, missing parts, etc.... Maybe someone wants to do some testing, to find out how tight the fitting needs to be, or test different types of brake line materials, etc.... We can speculate on how to make things safer, but let's go to the next step and do some real engineering here for our own good.
Maybe in this thread (which will soon be a new forum category), we define best practices for assembling & maintenance of plastic brake lines attached to calipers, or provide sketches of redundant brake linkage setups, or videos of something someone has already devised... (FYI - I have opened up permission to enable uploading many different types of files ... videos, Word, images....)
When I set up the new Safety Forum catagory, it can have seperate threads for each subject, i.e. brakes, steering, fuel...etc..
Jeff