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Darren:
Can't you make a spring to fit?... :dremel:
CrewCab:
--- Quote from: Darren on August 08, 2009, 06:42:48 PM ---Can't you make a spring to fit?... :dremel:
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please enlighten me :thumbup:
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John Stevenson:
S - P - R - I - N - G you know as in Boing Boing Zebidee
John S.
bogstandard:
Sorry Dave, I keep forgetting. I have got centuries of gathering behind me, and it didn't occur to me that you wouldn't have the correct sized spring in stock.
Shame you don't live a bit closer.
John
Darren:
Dave,
Before you well and truly get the wee wee extracted by all the leg pullers.....you can make a spring on your lathe.
That bit I remembered from metal work class at school...some, well lets say a long time ago..... :lol:
Take a length of round bar slightly smaller than the bolt diameter (the spring will spring open slightly larger than the bar) Chuck it up in the lathe and at the same time trap some wire between the jaws. Turn the chuck by hand, you can do it under slow power but take care, and wind the wire around the bar.
You have just made a spring...... :)
Spring steel is prob best, but I find SS welding wire works OK if you have any?
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