MadModder
Gallery, Projects and General => How to's => Topic started by: TLGriff on October 01, 2013, 09:11:42 AM
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We all use springs in our projects and it's nice to be able to make one that exactly suits your requirements. This video demonstrates a safe technique to wind such a spring out of music wire.
Tom
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Nice job! That might come in handy some day.
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Thanks, it's also a heck of a lot of fun to do.
Tom
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Hi Tom
Thanks for an interesting and informative video.
Well Done David
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Thanks David, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Tom
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Tom thanks for the link interesting
John W
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Tom,
just a word of thanks, I recently wound a few springs on my lathe based on the method you outline. These were for my dividing head plunger in project logs! I only needed one, but made a feww to get one that worked!
Thanks again, regards, Matthew
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Excellent Matthew, it's good to hear about someone putting these videos to use.
Tom
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Thanks for sharing Tom - Great video and well explained.
Cheers
Paul
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Thanks Paul.
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I am an "Old school" gunsmith. This method has been used for many years.
The funny part is that there was no video to learn from in those days.
Thanks for the nice tutorial.
BTW: we always used back gear for winding And when you are doing
compression springs, We used the thread cutting gear so we could set our pitch.
Thanks again!
Miz
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Thanks Miz.
I've tried winding the pitch directly for a compression spring, but found that it's just easier and more predictable to wind it tight and then stretch it to whatever pitch you need. Either way, you end up with a compression spring.
Tom
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Useful spring design calculators @
http://wwweng.uwyo.edu/commend/Csdc/
picclock
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Another good write up on this site
http://www.deansphotographica.com/machining/projects/projects.html