Nolan,
Explain to me if you can how you get a cut spring to sit onto its perch if you
don't taper the coil and then take a torch and flatten the end?
Joe
Nolan Penney wrote:
>
> Which is why you shouldn't try to change a springs rate by running a torch up
>and down it.. This was a dumb, but common, technique years ago. Run a torch
>up and down the coils until the car settled down to the height you wanted. Of
>course, the car would continue to settle in use because the temper of the
>steel was destroyed.
>
> Change a spring rate by cutting it, that's fine. But don't run a torch up
>and down the thing. You end up turning it into a non-spring that way.
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