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BrianG · 03.27.2008, 12:24 PM

The trouble with a braking system like this is weight, real-estate, and complexity. Adding a convoluted system would add extra weight, require more room to mount things, and introduce more complexity which would make it easier for things to break. Not to mention that machining things that small will make them more delicate, expecially since they will be taking a fair amount of force. The current method of having the brake on the CD makes linkages easy and relatively compact.

However, this idea would be really neat on something a little larger, like a 1/5 scale vehicle! The reasons I listed wouldn't as big of a deal...

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BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	03.27.2008, 12:24 PM The trouble with a braking system like this is weight, real-estate, and complexity. Adding a convoluted system would add extra weight, require more room to mount things, and introduce more complexity which would make it easier for things to break. Not to mention that machining things that small will make them more delicate, expecially since they will be taking a fair amount of force. The current method of having the brake on the CD makes linkages easy and relatively compact. However, this idea would be really neat on something a little larger, like a 1/5 scale vehicle! The reasons I listed wouldn't as big of a deal...