Howdy,
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Ron Horwitz wrote:
> Have a project that requires something like a clothespin to hold two
> delicate pieces of fabric together. I'd like to weaken the spring on
> the clothespin a bit. I know that I can just force the jaws open for a
> couple of days and that will help some. I can disassemble and bend the
> spring a bit, but that seems to be fairly irreproducible, and I need
> four that are fairly similar in clamp strength. Will heat lower the
> spring constant? Do I heat with the jaws closed or open? Any other
> thoughts?
I can't imagine that clothespin springs are all that uniform from the
factory... Why not just make a spring force meter (two pieces of something
with a pivot like a scissors, with a spring on one end and the clothes pin
clamping the other, measure the distance) and work on each one via bending
until you get four you like?
Mark
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