Making your own springs

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Making your own springs

« on: March 16, 2011, 04:50:12 pm »

Occasionally I have had springs so far gone that they break to the touch.
I've always used something close, but it is not a perfect fit. And I usually don't need 50-100 of them, so it is not cost effective to have a bunch made
I was browsing around last week and found this site

http://home.earthlink.net/~bazillion/intro.html

It seems pretty informative and doesn't look to almight hard. Thought I would pass it along as I know a lot of you probably have the same dilemma as I.


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Re: Making your own springs

« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2011, 08:49:17 pm »

That is a very interesting and extremely well written and organized site. He actually made it sound interesting and somewhat feasible to make your own springs. Although my kids would look at me like I was nuts if I told them I was going out to the garage to try to make some springs. Do you typically replace all the springs in a restore, reuse existing, or after reading this site, make your own?


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Re: Making your own springs

« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2011, 10:34:47 pm »

Quote from: ILikeCoinOp on March 16, 2011, 08:49:17 pm

Do you typically replace all the springs in a restore, reuse existing, or after reading this site, make your own?

I replace all of the springs in my mech restorationss, but I have not been quoted reasonably for a couple of the rejector springs. These are the ones I may attempt to make. I usually re-zinc the rejector springs and reset them in a 500 degree oven when I get them back, but some do come back broken and some are brittle.

He does make it sound easy and I'd like to try my hand at it.