Lift Peg (Spring) Source?

[JR0405]

Andymark has apparently ordered some but they won't be in stock until 1/24/17

http://andymark.com/spring

[phurley67]

If you are in the Metro Detroit area (we are in Canton), we have a few extras if you want to PM me and then pick up a 36" spring which according to the very friendly people at Peterson Specialty Products is a really close approximation of the McMaster Carr item (they used a different metal, that does not take to bends as well, but should have the same spring rate? -- what do I know I am a programming mentor).

They gave them to us for free, so if you are interested I will pass the extras out at the same price, just PM me and we can arrange a pickup.

[The Doctor]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

Did you inform McMaster Carr that up to 3000+ FRC teams would all be attempting to acquire a very specific spring ASAP all on the same weekend?

Maybe they didn't?

[JoeRames]

Sorry for this suggesting. This place said they had inventory, but then didn't reply to emails and phone calls. Finally got through and they said they were on backorder. Cancelled order.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by JR0405

Andymark has apparently ordered some but they won't be in stock until 1/24/17

http://andymark.com/spring

Update: They're in stock on the website now.

(Full disclosure of the painfully obvious: I work at AndyMark.)

[Ari423]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Update: They're in stock on the website now.

(Full disclosure of the painfully obvious: I work at AndyMark.)

Just to be clear: these are the McMaster springs listed in the manual not an "identical" spring from another source, correct?

[JR0405]

Originally Posted by Ari423

Just to be clear: these are the McMaster springs listed in the manual not an "identical" spring from another source, correct?

Unless billfred or someone else from andymark can confirm otherwise the product description on their website says "This is a steel compression spring, similar to the one used in the 2017 game FIRST STEAMWORKS℠."

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Ari423

Just to be clear: these are the McMaster springs listed in the manual not an "identical" spring from another source, correct?

Originally Posted by JR0405

Unless billfred or someone else from andymark can confirm otherwise the product description on their website says "This is a steel compression spring, similar to the one used in the 2017 game FIRST STEAMWORKS℠."

Correct, similar. AndyMark worked with a spring manufacturer here in Indiana to get a supply of springs with the same outside diameter and wire diameter as the official one so teams can practice on something comparable. We did not source them from McMaster-Carr (at this point, who could?), and we are not advertising them as such.

Close counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and hopefully lift springs.

[Siri]

I don't see this cross-posted yet. For Century in particular, but anyone looking to source their spring from another vendor should see this:

Originally Posted by ahartnet

Our McMaster one came in today. I took it over to the Robonauts so we could do a direct comparison between the century one they got with identical specs to the mcmaster one as far as I can tell (https://www.mcmaster.com/#9664k68 vs http://www.centuryspring.com/extensi...ings-e-41.html) They behave very differently.

Foreground picture is the century one, background one is the mcmaster. Heading over to FIRST Q&A now to ask if they're only going to source the spring from McMaster. Aw man, just missed being the cheesy poof question: https://frc-qa.firstinspires.org/qa/255