Ultimate L10 variable rate spring

[SR_matt]

wait i just realized something, this idea is trying to take something that gives variable resistance and give more varied resistance. a spring before compression gives 0 resistance and then as you compress it it will give you up to X resistance, by making part of the spring softer you reduce the amount of maxim resistance you can get. unless you use a longer spring made out of the same material with the same springness (ya bad word but you understand what i mean) then you cannot increase the resistance at all, if you use a longer spring with a softer springyness than the original spring but that because of its over all length you get the same total spring coefficient (i think that is the right term) then you might be able to achieve somewhat of what you want.


-matt

[SR_matt]

Matt,

Heat treating/normalizing the metal dose not include quenching the metal. when you quench a metal it's rapidly cooled which results in hardining the metal.

I'm not trying to re-temper/re-arch the spring either because its pointless to take away the springiness then put it back.

I work as a Aircraft Mechanic, so I do have and a bit about metallurgy, fabrication machinery, non destrauctive testing, etc....

"heat treating" refers to hardening and tempering the metal. normalizing is a different process than heat treating. it may be because when i use these terms i am used to talking about knife making but even in all the metalworking things i have seen "heat treating" has always referred to hardening the metal and can also cover tempering but never just tempering.
-matt

[flyingpootang]

"heat treating" refers to hardening and tempering the metal. normalizing is a different process than heat treating. it may be because when i use these terms i am used to talking about knife making but even in all the metalworking things i have seen "heat treating" has always referred to hardening the metal and can also cover tempering but never just tempering.
-matt

Heat treating also covers how ductile a metal is. Normalizing is the proper terminology, but re-heat treating is more commonly used in the aeronautic industry because all the metal we use are already heat treated when we get them. I guess if I spent more time in sheet metal I would use the proper terminology of normalizing.

[Spider-TW]

Heat treating also covers how ductile a metal is. Normalizing is the proper terminology, but re-heat treating is more commonly used in the aeronautic industry because all the metal we use are already heat treated when we get them. I guess if I spent more time in sheet metal I would use the proper terminology of normalizing.

Gunsmithing books cover spring making. The Brownell's series is fun to read, but the spring stuff is scattered throughout.