Coil spring straightening
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Re: Coil spring straightening
Got it, Bill. Thanks. Gonna give the cold forming a go first. Maybe do one spring cold and anneal the other and see which one fires better. One thing is certain; I have plenty of donor springs to experiment with!
Re: Coil spring straightening
You're Doing it the hard way . .
Unless you WANT to learn heat treating.
I never had much luck . . but I didn't try very hard.
I'd start with big piano wire, for a straight kick spring in a Rizzy.
Buy it on eBay. Cut it and cold bend it just once. . no re-bending. . .
Buy smaller wire to wind a coil spring. . . wind it smaller, it sort of relaxes bigger.
no heat treating involved.
Make 200 of them until one comes out right.
Make yourself a $80 kickspring for a $30 knife.
(just joking)
after a while, you grow a collection of piano wire and other stuff.
In the beginning it's hard . .everything is so deliberate. . .like BBQ steaks. . .
Later it becomes like cooking hot dogs. . .you can always burn another.
Unless you WANT to learn heat treating.
I never had much luck . . but I didn't try very hard.
I'd start with big piano wire, for a straight kick spring in a Rizzy.
Buy it on eBay. Cut it and cold bend it just once. . no re-bending. . .
Buy smaller wire to wind a coil spring. . . wind it smaller, it sort of relaxes bigger.
no heat treating involved.
Make 200 of them until one comes out right.
Make yourself a $80 kickspring for a $30 knife.
(just joking)
after a while, you grow a collection of piano wire and other stuff.
In the beginning it's hard . .everything is so deliberate. . .like BBQ steaks. . .
Later it becomes like cooking hot dogs. . .you can always burn another.
Re: Coil spring straightening
JerryK, the coil springs are free, and being a welder with over thirty years experience, while I'm not a metallurgist, I do have a bit of metallurgical knowledge. I can control a torch and "read" the color of the metal. I just needed to be told what to look for. I know cherry red from "about to liquefy" yellow.