Getting Spring Free Length Right in Your Designs
Getting your spring free length dialed in is usually the first action toward ensuring your mechanical project in fact works the way you planned. It's one of individuals specs that sounds incredibly simple—and upon the surface, it is—but if you disregard the details, you're going to run into some frustrating assembly issues down the road. When you've ever tried to put a tool together only to find the spring is rattling close to or, worse, too long to even fit in the housing, you know exactly what I'm talking about. ...