How to Wind Custom Springs
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- čas přidán 30. 03. 2015
- In this video I demonstrate a simple tool I created for hand winding large springs which are useful for many different projects, and notoriously hard to find. You can go further to even out the tension by tempering the springs after they have been wound by heating them in an oven at 400 - 500 Fahrenheit for 20 minutes or so. Here is a calculator that can be used to determine what wire and winding pitch to use for specific spring tensions and other various traits: www.efunda.com/designstandards... #NightHawkInLight
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I was so bored of winter and I wanted spring, thanks to this video I can make one myself.
I've never thought of that. Good job.
Cool idea Ben! Bake them in the oven at 500C for an hour and they should retain their springiness under higher loads.
you two shpuld make an iron man suit or something
Thanks Grant! I think you mean 500F? I don't think many home ovens hit 500C
NightHawkInLight not with that attitude.
Leon Parkin The hacksmith is already doing that
Magneto! If anyone's oven hit 500C it would be Grants.
Good stuff. I like the more casual editing style. You always have interesting projects, and it's the content that really matters.
Yay Applied Science! 🙂
And 8 years later too, like CZcams comment archeology. :p
I love this video, this method has so many applications! I also love the idea of you releasing smaller videos every now and then too
Thanks! This'll come in handy. I hadn't even thought of making my own springs like this.
It's the simplest ideas that I like the best. Smaller springs can be wound on a spindle on a drill press, but that's no good for large springs.
NightHawkInLight I wonder if this can be done with much more flexible/maliable wire, and then heat treated somehow to harden it and make it springy?
Simple and genius! Great video! I've done similar with nitinol (memory) wire but never thought of this obvious application.
This is pretty cool! I might just make custom springs for my projects from now on to add another touch of personality to them. Thank you for sharing this!
Another great video. I've just returned from my local model shop with a bunch of wires that I thought were posable, but turns out I'd picked PIANO wires!!! So searching youtube to see what I can use them for (I rarely take/send things back to the shop!) and then I stumble across your brilliant channel, where for the 3rd time in 6 months, you've got practical solutions for my self-induced (if that's even a word!!) Problems!!
I've been looking for a particular spring for weeks and was getting prepared to dismantle all sorts of items around my flat!! So once again, thank you sir, your videos help spark the imagination in creative souls across the world 👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿💜🇬🇧
You can bend piano wires really easily with heat from a torch, and it's nice because they hold their shape solid when they cool down. Not good if you're doing stop motion or something, but great if you just want to bend them once and have them stay that way.
Great idea!! Thanks for showing us how to do it.
Several years ago I was bending brass around an iron rod. The end slipped and snapped me really hard right on the knuckle of my finger. It was intense pain and even today I can feel the spot every time something touches it. Wear gloves and watch out for that end piece springing out of your hand.
Thank you! Best subject ever, i'm sure sooo many other makers out their hate it when they can't find springs.... It's like that ONE lego you can't find even though you just saw it ten seconds ago lol.
Very nice. That will come in handy. Thanks
Nearly at a million subs Ben! hope your going to do a super awesome project to celebrate that mile stone bro. Top notch as always its nice to see your face in a video for once to
YES THANK YOU!! You have no idea how long I waited for something like this ;)
OK, Whatever you are using for a Mic, IS AWESOME. I was wearing headphones, and I legitimately thought some one was talking to me outside my room.
It's super nice isn't it? I love it. It's a Sure Lenshopper with internal flash recording. I'm probably the only person in the world that uses that sort of mic to record voice overs, but I think everyone else is missing out.
Awesome! This adds so many ideas to my list of possible builds. Thanks a ton.
And also, digging the beard.
GREAT video! Ever so simple and yet very doable. Thank you!
love the quality as always. Great job man
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing this!
I'm ordering different strengths of springs all the time on ebay. This might actually save me alot of money. Thanks.
Fantastic! You have no idea how useful this is going to be!!! Well actually NightHawkInLight YOU probably do...
As always, excellence in "how to." Thanks!
NightHawkInLight you sir just made my day! Thank you!
I love the new format, well done! give you more time to make awesome vids! Can you tell me or make a vid on how you do those sweet voice overs? the bass is awesome, my audio always sucks! Great tips on the spring can;t wait to see what project you'll use it with!
A lot of how the voice over sounds is because of the microphone. I use a shotgun mic which is kind of unusual for voice overs, but I like it. Currently I use a Sure Lenshopper, the version with internal flash recording and monitoring output. I like it a lot.
NightHawkInLight Thanks Ben! I need to up my game a bit! You are definitely a channel I look up to.
Eric C Don't sweat your equipment too much. Great videos can be made with cheap gear if you know how to use it.
Agreed! I have a tendency to 'slop' stuff out, it's more my personality, HA! Yup I said i'm lazy.
NightHawkInLight you have a shotgun as a mic ? O_o
awesome as always
Awesome video as usual!!
Very nice video! This video is very similar to the type of videos I make.
great info! I really needed this!
Simple and brilliant! Love videos like this! +1
This is very useful for a custom gun that I'm building that I have to make my own magazine for and most of the other springs
Your videos have realistic information good job
To help keep the spring consistent, you might consider drawing a guideline on your bending tube or if you want different "densities" you might have some different paper patterns that you tape on.
Nice project, Ben
This knowledge will come in vary handy for me.
Very smart...Many thanks.
Much love 🙌🏾
oh man this is going to be really useful for me finding springs the right size and tension for my crosman 2240 is almost impossible without resorting to the internet.
Your beard is on point xD love the video format. You should try to do this a lot more often
Nice! And it would have been great if you demonstrated the spring in use :)
Genius. well done.
this is really great!!!! thank you!!!!!!!
nice application of an existing method. wouldnt have thought to ise it for sprinhs. my gf uses this method on a smaller scale when making jump rings for jewlery
Outstanding!👍👍👍👍
Man do I wish I was smart and creative like you people.
his pupils are full of knowledge!!!
that is brilliant! nice
Interesting. I will keep that in my tool box of methods. What I really need though are smaller springs. I often deal with firearms that were made 100 years ago and the springs need replacing, but good luck finding a spring just the right size and tension.
You can make little springs the same way, just shrink down all the parts.
NightHawkInLight I guess I will have to find that wire online. I doubt anything within 100 miles of here will have wire that small, ha. Thanks for the information.
Man its so coool!!!!!!!!! I'll sure try this!!
You could even add a ruler measurement to that angle iron support bar, with a slide that holds the wire. That way you could easily and accurately manage the spacing as you wind the spring.
Cool. Good to know if needing custom springs
Thanks for sharing.
Now that it's been a moment or two, sense you have made this video & have had time to play & perfect...
Have you attempted to annealing, shaping, & retempering..?
How was your outcome ?
10/10 beard and I support the casual video shooting.
Good to know thanks
Do smaller videos like this between major projects. I really like the spring idea.
Your safty note is well placed, I had a patient who scalped himself with the spring of a garage door and managed to even break his skullcap xD
Garage door springs are extremely scary, they could easily kill you.
Oh lord
NightHawkInLight I was once attacked by a wild garage door spring in the hills of Scotland.
They are mighty predators and should never be approached.
thanks. it is very good video
Awesome love you !
Thats awesome thanks!
Best springs of that size you can get will be Wastegate springs, can get them in all kinds of diffrent stiffnesses and sizes!
Springs to regulatre external wastegate pressure for turbo cars
Great tip!
Hey NightHawkInLight. I have been binge watching your videos and they are really awesome! I wounder if you could build a semi-auto airsoft pistol modeled off a real pistol like a glock :) I'm sure it would make an awesome project!
Very cool
When Morgan freeman dies you should take over and start making documentaries because your voice is mesmerizing
He will never die, he is a God.
I have done this but I didnt know about music wire good info
I've waited 3 weeks for a new video and this is what I get!? 3 minutes on how to make springs!?
You must have missed the video I posted two days ago.
Oh ya. I don't usually go on videos tab I just look at the uploads on the main page. Sorry :P
Just a thought: if you took a bit of time with a drill and maybe a grinder (to make a flat spot on the pipe where a hole could be drilled.), you could build that tool with a few nuts and bolts if you don't have a welder.
Like your videos a lot, they come in real handy, has anyone ever told you you look like liam neeson?
Nice
Perhaps welding a second guiding eye on the other end of your angle iron would assist you. Beyond that you have a great setup for basic springs. I do things in wood and this method could come in handy for some projects.
Very cool :)
You're the best
thanks!
I like this bro
Have you thought about drilling a hole in the angle iron to thread the wire through? This way you will be slowly pushing the receiver pipe as you turn. Also so the wire won't hurt your hands.
You could even 3D-print a hull with a negative imprint for the spring wire, that you simply put over a tube and then the wire precisely follows the negative shape. This way, progressive springs can be made easily
I completely forgot about you. Damn, I remember watching you back in 2010
Thanks for coming back! By clicking the gear next to the subscribe button by my channel name above you can select to receive an email notification when I post new videos if you'd like to keep up to date.
Thank you for this idea. My father and I are snake hunters when we make our snake sticks we can never find the spring to complete or even fix the so thanks
Cool useful
thankz bro
👏👏👏 thanks sir
Super🙏
Also a good jig for chainmail rings.
Your face...... It's perfect, and fits the voice very well, nice beard too!
You have a one majestic freaking beard, rock on beard brother!
Hey ! Tell me - a spring like this with Lot space between each wire Are more or less powerfull than a default spring (small space between wires) ? Or faster ? Or more resistence ? The power last more time ? Or less ?
now I can finally make a kick drum pedal for my cajon!! Your videos never disappoint!
You got an awesome voice ^_^
Evening Ben, I was just wondering if you could make some more airsoft videos as they were very cool and I kinda miss them.
KillaaFlame I try to space them out by a few months because not all my viewers are here to see airsoft stuff. I posted one back in November and will probably have another in a month or two.
I did not expect you to look like that. You look good an everything I just thought that you'll look different from your voice. Thanks for the useful videos.
WOO!
Thanks uncle
That asome
HOLY SHIT HE HAS A FACE!
OMG THIS IS AWESOME!
I LOVE IT THANK YOU
That is one majestic beard you have sir.
what if you needed to make a smaller spring could you attach a smaller rode and put a drill on it?
You could use springs from hobby grade rc cars. The springs you made look like losi lst sized springs
sweet
I was hoping you would explain how to quench and temper the metal, and even "carbonise" it. I'm starting from chicken wire, which is very soft, and as you suggest, you need some heat treatment in a coal-based mixture to stiffen the spring (heat it to red and throw it into peanut oil), but it becomes incredibly brittle then, so you sort of anneal it back by leaving it a couple of hours in the oven at 200ºC to "resoften" it... I need to check, maybe next week-end...
With your self determination and slowly evolving beard you are becoming the Amish youtuber. You need a straw hat.
Will these springs wear faster than a bought one, eg loose the tension and become "slack"?
No, they should be every bit as good as store bought springs, especially if you temper them after winding which can be done in an oven.
Okay, any idea which temperature I should aim at? Also, would it be possible to make a dual rate spring?
Filip Carlén 4-500 f. I've added a note about tempering to the description.
Filip Carlén
www.efunda.com/designstandards/springs/calc_comp_designer.cfm#calc
This may be of use to you. A dual rate spring may be made by more densely winding the coils at one end.
harry smith Great link! I'll add that to the description.
small videos are great
please make the videos that require springs im so lucky so i acturly got a dad witch owns a spring factory :)
Do you think this would fit on my Honda?
Could you use smaller metal to make smaller springs