Do you press the button when applying the handbrake?

Do you press the button when applying the handbrake?

Poll: Do you press the button when applying the handbrake?

Total Members Polled: 447

No - why would I do that?: 19%
Yes - it seems like the thing to do: 79%
Count me out - all electric handbrake here: 1%
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smartphone hater

3,691 posts

142 months

Thursday 28th June 2012
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Riknos said:
VeeDub Geezer said:
I normally pull the handle tight with button depressed, release button and raise one click on the rachet.
I do this too. Helps to make you 100% sure it's locked in.
That doesn't make any sense. You hold the button in on the grounds of mechanical sympathy but then release it for the last click. Where's your mechanical sympathy for the one tooth that matters? You don't want to wear out the bottom teeth that aren't important but don't mind wearing out the one tooth that is. Have either of you ever worn out that last tooth?

smartphone hater

3,691 posts

142 months

Thursday 28th June 2012
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Captain Muppet said:
Not that good, it implies using a ratchet makes the handbrake looser.
I quoted wrong post, now edited. smile