
Forming fine spring wire | Eng-Tips
Feb 11, 2012 · Hello, I need to understand what's involved for forming fine 304 stainless steel spring steel wire with about a .0066 dia. or less. It comes in a spool...
twisting and bending spring steel | Eng-Tips
Apr 14, 2015 · We build a fan that has the back of the motor supported by 4, 6 gauge spring steel wire struts with mounting loops on the ends, bent and then heat treated to Rockwell C45-49.5 Drawing …
Heat Treat Mild Steel to make spring | Eng-Tips
Aug 7, 2004 · Hey I am looking into how to heat treat mild steel and turn it into a spring, where the metal, steel, will come back to its orginal shape....the spring is a 5 sided spring where it is bent to make a …
Distressed Nerd: Alternative to thin spring steel? | Eng-Tips
Dec 28, 2014 · They don't usually use round wire either, but a flat strip of spring steel which uses the thinness of the section to produce the flexibility and the width of the strip to produce the desired …
what creates stainless steel 304 wire spring back? | Eng-Tips
May 20, 2004 · what creates stainless steel 304 wire spring back is it tensile being too high or chemical composition? The operator over bends just slightly to mitigate spring back, it depends as Ed said …
Are all Coil springs work hardened so that annealing will ... - Eng-Tips
Oct 19, 2010 · I was just wondering if coil springs relied partially on work-hardened wire to give them their "spring" properties or is it simply the property of spring steel? so that if one were to heat/anneal …
Mimimum Bend Radius as function of wire dia., temper, alloy
Aug 31, 2005 · I am looking for information regarding the minimum bending radius of stainless steel wire. For a given wire diameter, temper and alloy, bending the wire to a radius smaller than a certain …
music wire heat treatment A228 | Eng-Tips
Feb 11, 2008 · I am playing with a zinc coated music wire. I was told 500 deg for 1hour for heat treatment but that seems kinda long. Parts have very low mass and wire size is about 0.040". any …
Fatigue life of 200 Million cycles needed for compression spring
Mar 13, 2008 · The spring is enclosed in an 8mm diameter housing made of hard anodized aluminum. Operating frequency is 800 cycles per minute. Another supplier supplied this product with an …
music wire springs | Eng-Tips
Feb 28, 2009 · I just wound a .146 dia. music wire to make a spring 1.60 ID x 7 inches long spring to operate inside a hydraulic cylinder but it isn't very strong. Any suggestions as to making is stronger. I …