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Re: Europa-List: Classic Monowheel Brake Caliper

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Classic Monowheel Brake Caliper
From: Pete Zut <peterz@zutrasoft.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 05:26:45
indeed the piston is off-center and ends up jamming due to its wear angle.
I have reduced the effect somewhat by trimming some of the inside corners
of the piston's pad.  It's a lousy design.

-Pete

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 4:24 AM John Price <johnwprice@btconnect.com> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> It may be me, but the pads seem to be binding on the disk.
>
> I've had the caliper off and changed the o ring, but as the force fro the
> piston to the pad is not central the unit keeps in contact with the disk as
> there is no spring to part the two. Has anyone come up wth an Feynman
> solution to solve this?
>
> TIA.
>
> John.
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=498933#498933
>
>


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