Facts On Friction - Chevrolet Brakes (1934)

1934 the year Bonnie and Clyde got ambushed and shot to death.

Funny enough I have a 2017 Holden (Chevy) Spark with brake drums like this at the rear. Lots of cars still have drums at the rear, makes sense as this reduces cost, maintenance costs and the front brakes do most of the work anyway.

I can't stop watching these.

It's 2022 i have 3 ad blockers installed, i refuse to watch live TV because of the ads, i pay for premium streaming services to avoid ads, and i'm here watching a 1934 ad for Chevrolet brakes. When they say "They don't make 'em like they use to" i'm pretty they are referring to these ads.

The advertising skills are very very good, they tell us why it's good and why it works and how it works, and how they're leading the market and engineering technology

Imagine a modern car with this type of tech. They wouldn’t last a mile 🤣

Look at this!

That guy was getting a little hot about his car’s lack of stopping horsepower.
Well, that’s the breaks, but soon the engineers helped by out by improvements made in brake systems designs and materials. They found asbestos made a good linings material and a miniature fluid pressure dispersion arrangement made for much better braking performance.
It was fact not friction that soon had motorists much more cooler headed about stopping their respective mounts.

Time was stepping on the brake pedal was akin to stepping on a ripe plum and just about as effective.
But now even a petite lady driver can haul her speeding automobile down easily with the application of a feminine foot force.
Gone are the days of hopefully praying that the vehicle will eventually come to a halt.
Braking systems have evolved into incredibly powerful and controllable devices equipped with anti lockup assist.

MY LEFT EARRRR
(ima headphone user)

Brake shoes made of asbestos for heat resistance and metal parts cadmium plated for rust resistance. Awesome!

So I want a Chevrolet now...one sold to me by the narrator of this video

А что если в качестве тормозной колодки использовать усеченный конус при нажатии выдвигающийся во внутреннюю часть обода колеса. Тогда соприкосновение будет максимальным. И тормозная жидкость будет впрыскиваться внутрь, охлаждая поверхность соприкосновения и перекачиваться через радиатор, как вода в бачке охлаждения таврии...

it’s in my left ear

This guy reads the add like his life depends on it!!

now this, this is really good advertising

Everybody: Oh God, what a good commercials were back then!
Me: People on yt back then in 2011 didn't care their video has just a single channel in sound and didn't bother to at least double it even if it's some yt channel pretending to be serious.

This is the reason why US is no.1 in technologies

lol cadmium

Now hydronic, no rods, power brakes and disc brakes

Failure of audio balance it's left side

I use these videos as automotive engineering educational material

Amazing best car education video i ever seen

he gets angrier as the brake shoe erodes

If I saw this video in the 30th, I'd got up from my couch, found a job, created a family (with two kids), kept healthy lifestyle...and..if i lived until this moment, I'd liked this video😂 The reason - strongest, motivated and the most emotional voice. 😂

Hydraulic brakes not invented yet I see.

My left ear now knows a lot about brakes. My right ear....not so much.

It's funny to see how much they are selling the public on mechanical brakes. A real strength of steel from pedal to wheel moment. Luxury cars like the Duesenberg had already switched to hydraulic brakes in the 1920s, and it took a while for regular automotive makers to get on board. 3 years after this video, Chevrolet would finally get on the hydraulic brakes train themselves, a good thing.

To anyone who has ridden a motorcycle with a mechanical rear brake (very common until recently), you would understand that it can only supply about 30%, sometimes less, of your braking power. Your front hydraulic brake does almost all the work and with much less rider force involved.

Still a great video to explain how braking systems work, particularly drum brakes, and you get a great idea of how they work even in the age of hydraulic disk brakes.

Im in the wrong era. 😞

So this is why Chevy brakes suck lol got it.

Its too bad most drivers today think their cars are indestructible even at 100 MPH weaving through semi's like its a video game. People actually used what the learned taking their DL test, now its all about how big a tire they can fit, hiw high the truck can be lifted, how loud their bass is?(can people here/feel it inside their house 1/2 a mile away?

how did we go from this to "real people, not actors" chevy?

Very thoughtful and touching. I love you friction

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Hmmm, I wonder what that brake material is made of? I sure hope it won't give me cancer...

It can glaze over once heated up.

So noone gonna talk about how he drew 3 perfect circles?

I'm going to save all these videos and use them at work to teach those idiots the fundamentals of mechanical engineering.

Os freios eram a varão, não eram hidráulicos. Deveria ser bem mais pesado.

It's not only a great source to learn but it's also great to see how far technology for cars has come

God they used to write well

I drive a cable drum braked car and they're one of it's best points, fantastic things with so little to go wrong and more than capable of modern traffic.

Thankfully, Malcolm Loughead invented the hydraulic brake system circa 1918 so it could be used instead of mechanical brakes by Chevrolet in 1934.

It was interesting 🧐

😌😌😌😉🙂🙃

Oh no… Cadmium.

Wow Mr.Chevrolet was sure a smart guy inventing all this stuff