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Make your own springs in seconds – More DIY How To Projects
Make your own springs in seconds – More DIY How To Projects
Make your own springs in seconds – More DIY How To Projects
Hey, guys! I had a question about making springs. My question has to do with hardening the steel to get the nice high k (spring constant – I once studied physics in college
). Once you have the shape, don’t you want to use a torch to heat the spring to glowing, then quench it quickly in water? Or does it really work well enough to form the TIG wire in the proper shape?
Thank you! MM has quickly become my very favorite “backyard engineering” podcast.
I used stainless steel for these springs, if you tried to heat treat them, not much will happen due to the carbon content. Spring steel has the correct carbon content to heat treat. If you used spring steel and heat treated it, you might get a stronger spring than mine but my stainless ones have been strong enough for repeated work on my gate for years now and they dont corrode. Stainless springs are used a lot in food production. Thanks for the compliment too!
Ah, I think I get it now. Basically, between the gloves and the drill you can apply a great deal of force to shape the stainless steel rod. I might have to give that a go sometime.
And now that I’ve finally caught up with the comments in the Instructable, I can see you’ve already been grilled on this question. I personally love the one where the guy said that you can’t possibly have made a true spring because it wasn’t tempered afterwards, as if there’s some platonic ideal for a spring. If it does what you need a spring to do, it’s close enough.