[Rhodes22-list] Trailer Brakes

[Peter Thorn]

Another word -

Stan sold me a Triad with a Titan Model 60 Surg-O-Matic hydraulic actuator.
If you want to back up hill, you can disconnect the actuator from the brakes
and back until your heart's content -- and the brakes won't lock.  Just
remember to reconnect later, or the brakes won't work when you need them.

Lou:  before investing hundreds in adding brakes to your old trailer, maybe
check with Stan to see if he has a recycled Triad already equipped with
brakes.  After you sell your old trailer, you might come out better.

Anybody heard from Stan yet?

PT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis McNeely" <mcneelyd at site-solutions.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Trailer Brakes


> Greetings -
>
> A word about hydraulic brakes - they can set themselves if you try to back
> up hill or when the trailer is jostled going over rail road tracks.
> Otherwise my limited experience has been OK.
>
> Dennis McNeely
>
> At 07:41 PM 8/14/2004, you wrote:
> >Saroj,
> >
> >    I was looking at new trailers this week and saw the inertial braking
> > system mounted on the tongue of these new monsters.  A small box no
wider
> > than the 4" tongue contained a master cylinder for the two rear brakes
of
> > the trailer.  A sliding mechanism triggers the master cyl to engage when
> > the tow veh begins its braking shoving the hitch fwd and the tongue mech
> > with it being triggered.. I must seem very naive Im sure as these types
> > of devices are all over but It would seem to me you could add this
> > mechanism to any trailer later on..
>
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