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Default Salvaging a Garage door torsion-spring

In article , RonB wrote:
On Apr 5, 7:53=A0am, "dadiOH" wrote:
Bill wrote:
I just happen to have this 32" torsion spring with a 2" i.d. left over
from an obvious home repair. =A0I placed it in the garbage, at first,
but I retrieved it--in case it may be valuable! =A0; )


Seriously, is it material suitable for making any sort of wood cutter?
If it is, I think I can get a lot of 'em out of the spring!


Maybe you could make some sort of catapult and use it for disposing of
things the trash men won't take. =A0Like dead cats =A0

....or live ones!


Of course. Why do you think they call it a CATapult??