Springs
How to Find the Right Spring Materials in Manufacturing
There are several criteria on how to find the right spring materials and they can make or break your quest to choose high-quality compression springs for your machine. Here’s what you should know. The various types of springs on the market may only be small devices, but they can greatly impact on the proper functioning…
Read MoreWhat is Spring Pitch and Which Is Right For You?
Spring pitch involves many different variables, all of which can depend on what a spring is made of and what the purpose of the spring is. The pitch can vary from music wire to chrome silicon, stainless steel to Elgiloy. The thickness of the spring can also come into consideration. To best serve your system…
Read MoreThe Most Common Reasons for Compressor Spring Failure
Compression spring failure can drastically affect the efficiency and effectiveness of an entire system, but many are not aware of what actually causes this failure. Spring failure can disrupt expected output and establish frustrating maintenance issues and overtime for personnel. Regular preventative maintenance, cleaning, and attention to environmental conditions can help avoid most of the…
Read MoreMetal Springs: Your Guide to Compressor Spring Materials
When it comes to developing metal springs for compressors, several factors have to be taken into account. Your choice of custom springs will differ depending on your environment, industry, and other variables. The type of environment that the spring will be subjected to, as well as the type of industry the spring will be used…
Read MoreThe Top 5 Uses of a Coil Spring to Know
A coil spring, also known as helical spring, is one of the most common types of springs in use. The spiral, coiled shape is readily recognizable; the basic yet versatile form means it can be used to push, pull or support almost anything. A coil spring may serve three basic purposes. It stores and releases…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Compression Spring Engineering
Compression spring engineering is all around us, from miniscule springs in watch clasps, to our phone and computers we use on a day to day basis, to larger springs found in the oil and gas industry. Compression springs are a type of mechanical device designed from a spring wire in a helical shape. These springs are…
Read MoreStainless Steel Springs and Their Surprising Benefits
Although certain materials have been regarded as a spring material, not all are specially designed alloys for spring use. An ideal spring material will have properties of high strength, high elastic limit, and low modulus. Because springs are inherently resilient structures, they are designed to experience large deflections, requiring an extensive elastic range. Other characteristics,…
Read MoreWhat to Look for in a Spring Engineer
It can be really difficult to know what to look for when it comes to choosing a good spring engineer. It’s also difficult to know whether or not the spring engineer that a manufacturer has sent you is a good engineer or a terrible one. In this article you will learn some of the…
Read MoreHow Tension Springs Are Used in Engineering
Comprised of a simplistic beauty, springs may seem like a basic component but they are a design that is fundamental to many engineering solutions. Tension springs provide resistance to a pulling force in a linear direction and can be used for storing potential energy or to create a resistance against a directional force. This is…
Read MoreSigns It Is Time to Replace Springs in Your Equipment
The very last thing you want is to find out that you need replace springs in your machine while you are in the middle of a manufacturing project. As you know, springs are used in an absolute myriad of different pieces of equipment, including the compressors that we all use every day. That means that…
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