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Originally Posted by Ether
Hey Chief Delphi, need your opinion.
I've got a tension spring with a worn hook. I was thinking of cutting the hook off at the long end (no problem) and bending a new one (??).
Do ya think the steel will bend OK, or break?
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Neither. It's spring steel, so it'll spring back.
Kidding aside, it depends largely on how you bend it. If you were to bend it without heating, I'd put the odds of reduced life pretty high--but it's not as likely to break as you might think. But that bend isn't going to be easy without heat. Heating... well, I think you're as well aware as I am that heating isn't going to leave the desirable properties of the material alone.
And then you have the additional headache: is the reduced length going to cause extra tension in the system that the spring goes into?
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