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| Author: | '67 Dart 270 [ Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Don't throw away your springs! |
My headlight adjusters were worn out ('67 dart), plastic crumbled, no adjustment. I got some new ones off ebay. The adjusters are fine, but the springs that came with them are crapola. I was reinstalling the headlight bowl and I stretched the new spring during installation and it never came back - not spring steel!! I reused my old '67 springs, rusty but still very resilient. Shiny new "springs" in the trash. FYI, Brian |
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| Author: | Louise76 [ Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Don't throw away your springs! |
Good catch! It's a good thing for all of us to do a "quality analysis inspection" of today's aftermarket parts. |
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| Author: | Charrlie_S [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Don't throw away your springs! |
Quote: Good catch! It's a good thing for all of us to do a "quality analysis inspection" of today's aftermarket parts.
Yeah, but the companies don't pay us for doing a job they should be doing. Actually they "effectivly"charge us
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| Author: | 64 Convert [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 8:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Don't throw away your springs! |
I went through the pains of trying to find small coil springs for my old '56 Plymouth. I researched as many spring manufacturers I could find in the US. Only a couple would even sell to hobbyists, and then only their standard products, since they had fear of a custom size being used on a car. I was told that since the government has so many rules that the parts would require federal certification, even if not part of a mandated safety system. I finally ordered stainless steel spring wire and experimented making my own. I found a youtube video that showed how it was done, but the automated tools they used were obviously not for the amateur. It took a lot of tries, but I finally made a simple tool to do the wrapping. I don't know how easy it would be to make the heavier springs like those used on headlights. The wire diameter of my springs was about half that you would need, but it might be something you could do if you build a sturdier wrapping tool. |
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| Author: | emsvitil [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 1:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Don't throw away your springs! |
I've bought various small springs from McMaster Carr.................... |
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| Author: | '67 Dart 270 [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 8:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Don't throw away your springs! |
Yes, McMaster is awesome. I needed a return spring for a door in my house, it wouldn't stay open like I wanted. I didn't want to change the angle of the hinges, and it was a funny setup and none of the standard door return spring systems would fit. I ordered some very thin wire springs that I could put on my door hinges, just a few pounds of strength, and my door slowly stays where I want it and you can barely notice that the hinges are spring loaded. b |
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