How to bend
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DIY Springs... Make Your Own Springs at Home!
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hello everyone welcome back to the
workshop today I want to take and show
you everyone a very handy little trick
to make your own mild steel spring now
this rod here is a piece of I believe it
as eighth inch believe so yep
so this is a piece of eighth inch
diameter 10 18 and this here is an inch
and a quarter pipe with a 3/16 slot cut
in it now this is our tool portion of
making our mild steel spring this is
going to be a coil spring and
essentially there's a lot of really good
videos out there where guys you know
make these kind of tools and you know do
well they've got all the math and
research and I've heard there's charts
and stuff with this I believe this old
Tony has done a video on making Springs
but he has a lathe and a in a actual
spring making tool concept here I'm
gonna adjust you guys here for a second
just so you can see what's going on here
so but this is just kind of a simple way
you can do it at home without the
process of the lathe so what we're going
to do is we're actually going since this
is just mild steel we are actually going
to wrap this cold so you just take it
have to bend it around now this will
work for small Springs small little
mechanical Springs that's what it's
mainly good for and off since the
cameras in a way I'll have to keep
adjusting this pipe but essentially you
just roll this thing right around you
have to have the knot in it so this way
you can capture the end of the spring
but after you have that portion down you
can just keep rolling this thing right
on up now I'll roll it all the way back
around saying really get another good
wrap on it like I said if the key
wasn't in the way I would have enough
space and clearance that I could just
you know good a town on this thing but
the trick to it is just make sure your
raps are good and tight if you're making
this tension spring like I am here if
you are making a if you are making a
compression spring which means the
spring compresses you just make your
wraps a little further apart if you're
making an extension spring you make it
where your wraps are tight together and
then you know the action is pulled apart
so to speak so just keep doing this
right on around now be aware this takes
a lot of linear feet of material so you
want to do this in an area where you got
quite a bit of space because you'll need
it this rod here that I started with
this about four foot long and as you can
see I've only got two wraps so far hello
two and a half reps we go just trying to
get this where you guys can still see
what I'm doing yeah pretty much you just
wrap this around keep your wraps nice
consistent and even I won't get into all
the stuff like you know pitch of the
wraps and how many wraps and what it
does this is just meant to be a simple
explanation of how you can make a mild
steel spring now since you're stretching
the purpose behind this since you're
stretching the material cold around this
mandrel what's happening is that grain
structure does not want to be
transformed so it's wanting to try to go
back to its original state and then
that's what makes this an effective
spring now we can just wrap it all
around let's go take a little bit work
you can see I'm doing it by hand I'm
just gonna try to get about this
Tyrael there there we go and off the
diet goes so now you can take this
portion and you can curl it into a hook
and you can create an extension spring
heavy duty or you can actually put it in
somewhere you can use it for like
mousetraps or you know heavier duty
traps of some sort because it does
spring quite a bit can't really show it
on camera the greatest there the other
thing you can do with this is you can
actually cut this off and you can finish
finish off the end just straight for a
compression what sorry
tongue-tied for a compression spring you
can just cut this off right back in here
and then just drying that flat on both
sides and you've got a compression
spring then that way and you know this
size this is a great tool and method for
anybody who is doing fabrication work of
any sort maybe for power hammers may be
hard to find Springs things like that if
you can't get them locally or they cost
too much to ship you from Amazon so be
looking out to this process and for in
future power hammer builds and tooling
builds because you know this is a very
handy way of making a spring as far as
longevity you know I don't know yet I
haven't really went through the testing
of it but you know this right here the
coiling up all these coils in it taking
tension across a whole entire bar I
doubt it will break or find brittleness
even in in my lifetime but that's just
my thinking anyhow so anyways that's how
you do it
you can just have a simple piece of pipe
to the inside diameter that you want
your spring to be cut a knot just
slightly bigger in it than what the
material thickness the thickness of the
spring you want it to be and then
calculate how many wraps you need to
take and go around and I believe I
believe the
the math on that is you take the
diameter of the pipe plus the thickness
of your material and you times that by
PI and then that gives you roughly how
much material you need to make one wrap
then you take that and you just times it
by the number of wraps you want in the
piece so you know if you you know you
can figure that out figure out how many
wraps it's gonna take to the inch just
do some simple math there guys and you
guys can go from there so anyways thank
you all for watching this video
hopefully you enjoyed it if you did give
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appreciate the feedback god bless you
all and we'll catch you on the next one
