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Making Springs, (the way I do it, anyway).

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dsquire:
Dean

Thanks for that great How-To on making springs. I certainly learned a bit today and am looking forward to your next one on compression springs when you have the time. That was also quite a career change from welder/machineing to camera repair. Looks like you found something you like doing that doesn't wear the body out.  :ddb: :ddb:

Cheers  :beer:

Don

Dean W:
Thanks for all the kind comments from everyone.  Appreciate that!

I'll have part two coming up directly.


--- Quote from: craynerd on February 12, 2010, 05:00:30 AM --- I asked the bloke if small ones, like the ones I was buying, could be made at home and he said not - you`ve just proved him totally wrong.

Thanks again
Chris

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Hi Chris;
 I've worked in a shop that had a spring job come in now and then.  That wasn't my job, as I usually got put on simple turning jobs when I wasn't welding something.  The boss knew what he was doing! : )

Anyway, I watched when ol' Jack did spring jobs on his big Monarch.  He could have done the same thing on a miniature scale, and much better than I've shown here.  I suppose there is a lower limit on a lathe, because eventually, the arbor will have to be so small that it won't hold up.  Then you would have to make a rolling jig, but I think it could still be done in the home shop.

Bernd and Don, the next part has a bit about compression springs, along with coiling larger wire sizes.

Thanks again, all.

Dean

 

Jonny:
Certainly a good write up but its soft and unhardened why?

Dean W:

--- Quote from: Jonny on February 28, 2010, 09:44:55 PM ---Certainly a good write up but its soft and unhardened why?


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If by "it" you are referring to the wire, it's definitely not soft.  It's music wire, otherwise known as piano wire or spring steel.  It's quite hard. 

Jonny:
Dont get me wrong i am genuinely interested and have a right pain of a spring to make at work, tried everything spent days for whats worth about a £5.
Either breaks, collapses or both, its a wavy type compression spring 3/4" free length that needs to compress 1/4".
Know what i am doing with V springs using bearing oil and whale oil for tempering. Steel is minimum 35 years old better than the new stuff.

When you put the spring in the oven, you annealed it and therefore its soft. In the wire wool you probably back tempered it looking at the colour so still hardish.

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