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Old 08-29-2008, 01:21 AM   #513 (permalink)
bennelson
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Electro-Metro - '96 Ben Nelson's "Electro-Metro"
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Well, I already had a forklift potbox, and I don't have a roof-mounted death-ray (yet), so I figured I'd use it. Kinda cool too how it's already built together with the switches for the contactors.

I was talking with a guy who is doing a 288V pickup truck conversion. He was seriously considering setting all four wheels to drum brakes. I guess disc brakes always have a tiny bit of drag, and drums don't. There was some other advantage to drums as well, I think it had to do with a way of using them without power braking.
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