X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:43:07 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [68.98.211.24] (HELO systems3.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.9) with ESMTP id 2104591 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:39:36 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.98.211.24; envelope-from=cberland@systems3.net Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Subject: [Fwd: Re: Replacement Spring] X-Original-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:39:00 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <87C33F695961494D886EB3B6C8A476512F3A43@s3server.Systems3.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [Fwd: Re: Replacement Spring] Thread-Index: AcevDuTl4Ti395xFS/yzDst0Zv0jXQAUxyzQ From: "Craig Berland" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mail List" =20 Bill Hogarty, a spring rate is pretty much determined by the spring free length, coil diameter, the wire diameter and the number of coils. The modulus for most springs of this type is constant. Get this info from Lancair and look in McMaster Carr or a Lee Spring catalog. They will give you the rate info. The spring engineer just did not want to mess with you. Now if you wanted 5000 springs per day for the next year...he would have helped you out. Maybe your installed spring height is too short..?? The min operating height should also be in the catalogs. I don't remember putting this spring in due to all of the other efforts.\ Craig Berland