Great video. That was very informative. I had never thought about winding my own springs. Goodbye hardware store, hello home made springs. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely the best spring winding demonstration I have seen. Do you heat treat the spring? Would hand winding a very large diameter wire (.125 or larger for instance) be more difficult with the manual winding of the chuck? - My apologies , I see heat treating has already been covered. If you have a very slow speed lathe, would the engaged backgear accurately make an acceptable compression spring, even if numerious attempts were involved? Thank you
Hi, nice one. you dont need to cut the sring after done. Cut a slot at the begining of the shaft and pull out the spring easily without using cutting player. No need to cut the spring end thats gone inside the hole. Sorry I dont know the technical parts names of the machies or tools parts as I'm from software background.
Thank you.Very helpful video. I'm curious re one point; do some springs require specific(e.g annealing) treatments after the winding process?-or is any required treatment done to the material used,-before winding? I hope the question is clear.;)
I have to disagree. If you don't temper the spring, it won't "spring". It will just bend and not return to its original shape. Music wire springs must be tempered... 450 degrees for 30 minutes is all it takes. Just Google, "Tempering music wire springs".
I have an idea for a spring that fits around a shaft, but it needs a thin nut on one end, the other end needs a flat washer with three round nubs on top. This is a small part, maybe 7/16ths diameter, 3/4 inch long. Is this even possible to machine ?. A spring sandwiched between flat nuts ?. Welding springs is bad so I need one piece ?.
@@machiningmoments What if the bottom of the spring material was thicker than the spring wire itself ?. Could it then be closed and threaded on one end ?. Then do the same on top but instead of thread it, I need a flat round end with 3 nubs.
Absolutely, heat treating is required depending on the properties of the material. Good catch! Thanks
Great video. That was very informative. I had never thought about winding my own springs. Goodbye hardware store, hello home made springs. Thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for saying so!
Absolutely the best spring winding demonstration I have seen. Do you heat treat the spring? Would hand winding a very large diameter wire (.125 or larger for instance) be more difficult with the manual winding of the chuck? - My apologies , I see heat treating has already been covered. If you have a very slow speed lathe, would the engaged backgear accurately make an acceptable compression spring, even if numerious attempts were involved? Thank you
Glad you found what you were looking for. Thanks for posting.
Very informative. Thank you. The suggestion to cut an end slot rather than the drilled hole was also appreciated.
+John V Glad you liked it, thanks for saying so.
Hi, nice one. you dont need to cut the sring after done. Cut a slot at the begining of the shaft and pull out the spring easily without using cutting player. No need to cut the spring end thats gone inside the hole. Sorry I dont know the technical parts names of the machies or tools parts as I'm from software background.
Venki R Your right, that will work too. Great having a software guy on this site!
Goddamn it I have been paying top dollars to make custom springs all these years, and yet I have 4 lathes in the shop.
Very easy process. Now you can make your own! Thanks for watching.
What a massive post of yours I searched everywhere and I found here.
Brad, I made mine 2 weeks ago, power feed. Jeff showed me. C'mon man. Anyways, I want to make the gear cutting/hobbing video. please. Sunny.
Awesome video, thanks!
Glad to help, thanks for your comment.
Excellent! Thank you.
divyajnana Your welcome!
great way of making a spring, is there a formula or rule of thumb to observe for the various diameters of springs being wound?
mmikeyy27 Not that I'm aware of. I think you would need to factor in the diameter of the wire and it's material.
Awesome! Thank you!
+Neil Hoffman Glad you liked it, thanks for your note!
Not for the wire used in the video (music wire). Some material may require heat treatment.
As soon as I get back Grasshopper!
Thank you.Very helpful video. I'm curious re one point; do some springs require specific(e.g annealing) treatments after the winding process?-or is any required treatment done to the material used,-before winding? I hope the question is clear.;)
I'm using spring steel in the video but for some applications a heat treatment process will be necessary.
I have to disagree. If you don't temper the spring, it won't "spring". It will just bend and not return to its original shape. Music wire springs must be tempered... 450 degrees for 30 minutes is all it takes. Just Google, "Tempering music wire springs".
Wow it's Mark Serbu
I have an idea for a spring that fits around a shaft, but it needs a thin nut on one end, the other end needs a flat washer with three round nubs on top. This is a small part, maybe 7/16ths diameter, 3/4 inch long. Is this even possible to machine ?. A spring sandwiched between flat nuts ?. Welding springs is bad so I need one piece ?.
Could you machine the shaft and thread it, put the spring on, then thread the nut on?
@@machiningmoments No, the threaded part needs to be anchored to the spring. The shaft would be separate.
@@machiningmoments I can't believe we can't combine a spring with a metal part...Otherwise I may have a good idea.
@@machiningmoments What if the bottom of the spring material was thicker than the spring wire itself ?. Could it then be closed and threaded on one end ?. Then do the same on top but instead of thread it, I need a flat round end with 3 nubs.
Nice
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
So, no tempering is necessary?
Neat. Thank you
+Tyler Thank you for watching and posting.
Use the lathe and its motor.... turning by hand????