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HOW TO MAKE SPRINGS SITE MAP
Introduction
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Disclaimer, preface, description of the main types of springs
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Design
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General principles, mathematics, design limitations, buying design
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Materials
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Types of wire and their attributes, buying wire
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Safety
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General safety, wire handling, opening and closing coils, coiling safety, wire storage
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Equipment
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Winding machines, drills, hand winders, lathes, grinding equipment, finishing equipment, ovens, passivating equipment, hand tools, testing equipment, tooling stock
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Tooling
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Pickup pins, wire guides, looping plates and rods, layover plates, bending pipes, bending jigs, passivating baskets, grinding stages
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Setup
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First coils, drill setup, hand winder setup, lathe setup, left-handed springs, coiling without a lead screw
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Torsion springs
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Wire length, first trial spring, torsion spring ends, extended hooks
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Extension springs
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Wire length, first trial spring, loops, hooks, swivel hooks
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Compression springs
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Wire length, first trial spring, grinding the ends, squareness, free length adjustments, setting solid, heat setting
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Clock springs
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Clock and power springs, flat springs
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Finishing
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Tweaking dimensions, stress relief, passivation, plating
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Other types of springs
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Buckling columns, nested compression springs, conical compression springs, variable-pitch springs, snap-rings, double-torsion springs, wire forms, bedsprings, limited-travel extension springs, braided wire springs, heavy wire, light wire, square and flat wire, tubular stock, leaf springs, Belleville washers
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Spring shops
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Organization, product costing and pricing, careers
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Glossary
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Definitions of spring-related words, detailed diagrams of the major types of springs and their parts
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Terms of Use
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