Your complete guide to the design and manufacture of springs!
- Detailed overviews on the properties for each type of spring, essential materials, and methods
- Charts and nomograms to simply the process of calculating and making springs
- Comprehensive details on tension and compression spring principles, compression and spring design, and torsions
- Helpful examples for winding coil springs and how to design, make, and coil a leaf spring
With this home machinist's guide, you'll have all the details you need to successfully make springs!
Few mechanics are entirely devoid of springs of one sort or another, but satisfactory operation rests on details such as spring strength and degree of movement. Designing springs can be difficult due to the number of variables and the complexity of the formula. Yet information on calculating and making springs is not easily available. Enter Spring Design and Manufacture for Home Machinists!
Inside this guide, you'll find helpful charts and nomograms, which greatly simplify the process. You'll find thorough explanations of the properties of each type of spring, along with essential materials and methods. Topics include tension and compression spring principles, compression and spring design, examples for winding coil springs, how to design, make, and coil a leaf spring, torsion spring, and I.C. engine valve springs.
If you want to design and create perfectly working springs in your shop, this is the book for you!
Author Tubal Cain (Tom Walshaw) was an expert engineer and craftsman who had over 60 years of experience in designing and building engines and machines, a number of which were published in industry-leading magazines for decades. The author of several best-selling home workshop and model engineering guides, he also won many model engineering exhibition awards throughout his impressive career.