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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
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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Nope, just an e-stop button with a brake that was meant to keep it stationary.
If you tried to stop from speed, you'd most certainly smell the brakes... but you could use it to do so, that's why it was called an E-Stop.