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Old 12-04-2008, 10:36 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Metro
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Almighty, did your forklifts also have a mechanical/friction seat brake? A drum on the motor's tailshaft? The one we bought to scavenge for the ForkenSwift had both plug braking and the safety/seat brake.

(And I had to steer it after removing the power steering pump [and everything else], while it was being winched onto the flatbed truck that took it away - that was a bit of wrestling with the wheel.)
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