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    Hydraulic brakes provide equal braking effort to all four wheels, experience less wear than mechanical brakes due to fewer moving parts, and allow for easy force multiplication by adjusting piston and cylinder sizes. However, they are vulnerable to failure if air enters or brake fluid leaks from the system, which can ruin the brake shoes. Disc brakes operate by forcing brake fluid through a caliper housing to squeeze brake pads against a disc attached to the wheel, slowing it down through friction in a way similar to but powered hydraulically rather than by cable like bicycle brakes.

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    Hydraulic brakes provide equal braking effort to all four wheels, experience less wear than mechanical brakes due to fewer moving parts, and allow for easy force multiplication by adjusting piston and cylinder sizes. However, they are vulnerable to failure if air enters or brake fluid leaks from the system, which can ruin the brake shoes. Disc brakes operate by forcing brake fluid through a caliper housing to squeeze brake pads against a disc attached to the wheel, slowing it down through friction in a way similar to but powered hydraulically rather than by cable like bicycle brakes.

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    Advantages of Hydraulic Brakes

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    Hydraulic brakes provide equal braking effort to all four wheels, experience less wear than mechanical brakes due to fewer moving parts, and allow for easy force multiplication by adjusting piston and cylinder sizes. However, they are vulnerable to failure if air enters or brake fluid leaks from the system, which can ruin the brake shoes. Disc brakes operate by forcing brake fluid through a caliper housing to squeeze brake pads against a disc attached to the wheel, slowing it down through friction in a way similar to but powered hydraulically rather than by cable like bicycle brakes.

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    ADVANTAGES OF HYDRAULIC BRAKES

    Equal braking effort to all the four wheels

    Less rate of wear (due to absence of joints compared to mechanical brakes)

    Force multiplication (or divisions) very easily just by changing the size of one piston and cylinder
    relative to other.

    DISADVANTAGES OF HYDRAULIC BRAKES

    Even slight leakage of air into the breaking system makes it useless.

    The brake shoes are liable to get ruined if the brake fluid leaks out.

    DISC BRAKES

    In a disc brake, the fluid from the master cylinder is forced into a caliper where it presses against a
    piston.

    The piston in turn squeezes two brake pads against the disc (rotor), which is attached to wheel, forcing
    it to slow down or stop

    DISC BRAKE AND BRAKE OF A BICYCLE

    Similar to a bicycle brake where two rubber pads run against the wheel rim creating friction.

    But in a disc brake, the brake pads squeeze the rotor instead of the wheel, and the force is transmitted
    hydraulically instead of through a cable.

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