Drum Brake - Ki Mobility Little Wave Flip Manual De Instrucciones Y Garantía

IV. WHEELCHAIR USE & CONFIGURATION
W. Drum Brake
WARNING: Ensure the drum brakes are properly adjusted. Using your wheelchair without
properly adjusted drum brakes can affect the stability of the wheelchair causing a loss of
control resulting in serious injury.
CAUTION: When stowing or transporting your wheelchair with the drum brakes removed,
take care not to damage the exposed brake pads which can cause damage to your chair
and affect the proper operation of the drum brakes (Fig. 38:C).
1. Brake Operation
a. Squeeze the brake
levers (Fig. 37:A)
on both sides of
chair to activate
brakes. Each side
is operated inde-
pendently and may
be squeezed with
more or less force
to get more or less
braking action.
b. Let go of brake
levers to release
brake.
c. For parking brake function, squeeze each brake lever and, with trigger squeezed, use
index finger to flip locking lever (Fig. 37:B) down into the teeth on the lever mount.
While holding the locking lever down, release brake handles and parking brake will
remain engaged.
d. To release the parking brake, squeeze the brake levers until spring loaded locking
levers snap back. Release the brake levers to deactivate the brake.
2. Brake Adjustment
a. Using a 10mm wrench, unlock the jam nut
(Fig. 38:A) on adjuster (Fig. 38:B).
Unthread adjuster to get tighter braking
action or thread adjuster in to reduce the
braking action.
b. It is recommended to adjust the brake
until there is a slight bit of drag on the
wheel when spun. Then thread the
adjuster inward about ½ turn, or whatever
is necessary to remove all drag from the
spinning wheel.
c. Retighten jam nut to lock the adjustment
in place. Repeat for opposite side of
chair.
d. Verify that the drum brake, when fully enaged, still prevents the wheels from rotating by
attempting to push the wheelchair with the occupant in it and the wheels locked.
Fig. 37
Standard
40
A
B
Fig. 38
C
With Tilt Actuator
A
B
A
B