Jeff Wisnia wrote:

I just spent an unexiting hour fixing one tonight by torching and
bending a new end loop on it.

Ummm ... heating it up? You know that you ruin any spring by making it
(red) hot.
If you bend the end of a expansion spring (you do that cold), you have
to put the spring into the ofen for some hours at about 200..250 °C to
relief the stress in the bend.


Nick
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