Why streamlined tubing on brake support?

[mhorowit]

There is a small piece of streamlined tubing welded to the top of the brake support; I believe it keeps the petals from coming too far back towards the driver. Why are they streamlined? - Mike

[Robert Lees]

Re: Why streamlined tubing on brake support?

It's not streamlined like you think...it's just oval.

Quite why, I know not, but they probably got the dimensions (or weld location) wrong & just squeezed it to get it to work.

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Why streamlined tubing on brake support?

I would bet the tube is the same as they made the jury struts from. Knowing how those old plants worked, and how careful they were to avoid waste, I bet you will find that the tube left over from a stick to make two jury struts is almost exactly the length to make a brake stop.
Waste not, want not. Those guys came up in the REAL depression. Not the phony one we have now.
Hank

[Forrest Barber]

Re: Why streamlined tubing on brake support?

Exactly correct, use up the scraps. Ever know that the lights for a Model T Ford were made by a company that had to ship them in a box designed by Ford taht were used to make the floor baords for the T ?? So many times , the oval is confused with streamline tube , the oval for the jury struts was round tubing that ahd been merely squeezed into the oval shape.