I have recently built myself a shop press, I'm looking for a source of
return springs for the hydraulic bottle jack.

Any ideas where to look, free sources would be nice but will settle for a
company that sells them.

Thanks

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Seen any busted trampolines in your neighborhood?

Big box stores have some in hardware section. Also look for garage door
springs as well as fence and gate stuff.

"SomeBody" wrote in message
news | I have recently built myself a shop press, I'm looking for a source of
| return springs for the hydraulic bottle jack.
|
| Any ideas where to look, free sources would be nice but will settle for a
| company that sells them.
|
| Thanks
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| 2x256mb Crucial PC3200 DDR ram
| Palit-Daytona Ti4200/64M AGP
|

Try looking in any junkyard at older American Cars, most have stout
tension springs on the hood hinges. Probably best to pull the hinges
and remove the springs, not the other way around. Failing that go to
McMaster Carr online and have them in two days..

On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 02:00:39 GMT, "carl mciver"
wrote:
"SomeBody" wrote in message
news

| I have recently built myself a shop press, I'm looking for a source of
| return springs for the hydraulic bottle jack.
|
| Any ideas where to look, free sources would be nice but will settle for a
| company that sells them.

Big box stores have some in hardware section. Also look for garage door
springs as well as fence and gate stuff.

Garage door springs would be inexpensive and perfect for the job if
you have the length available to mount them, because of the 'caging'
wires on modern springs that will keep the two (or three) pieces of
the newly broken spring restrained on the unit.

I don't care how fast you are, if an uncaged spring breaks and a
chunk heads your way, it's impossible to 'Duck And Cover' fast enough.

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SomeBody wrote:
I have recently built myself a shop press, I'm looking for a source of
return springs for the hydraulic bottle jack.

Any ideas where to look, free sources would be nice but will settle for a
company that sells them.

Thanks

A lot of oven doors have springs inside them . I am not sure if they
would have enough stretch in them though but might be close . New
springs should be under 10 bucks a piece . Luck
Ken Cutt

replying to SomeBody, Gene Lee wrote:
look on e bay for extention springs ,that is where i found them gene

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