clutches

[WD_Fan07]

What are the differences/advantages between button and spring clutches?

 

[Anonymous-0]

I am not sure I understand the question pertaining to springs throughs me off some. Button clutches are usually a ceramic material with a small patch or puck . the fewer the pucks the more they grab and hold they dont slip much if any and cause more flywheel wear than the fibrous lined clutch disc.

 

[WD_Fan07]

Yes the lined clutch disc is what I meant I have seen some with springs around the middle input shaft referred to as a spring clutch disc

 

[Jeff B.]

The springs you refer to are cushion springs meant to lessen the shock of engagement as the pressure plate starts to grab. You wouldn't want to go without them. In over 20 years of selling thousands of clutches I've seen extremely few rigid discs. Usually if the disc is rigid there's some other method of dampening somewhere in the system.