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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => The Shop => : February 25, 2007, 01:46:12 AM
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Has anyone ever used either of these kinds of springs in a springer?
It would seem that TI springs would have greatly reduced mass and therefore inertia. It could make the gun recoil less via reduced sprung weight. Spring common in motorcycle forks seem a lot like the power spring in a springer.
Wave springs seem even better as they don't uncoil so there's be no torque, no twisting motion for greatly reduced twang. I take it these can also be had it TI. Ti is a great spring material. It can be stressed for many, many cycles, even more than the best steels and retain the original design spec.
http://www.smalley.com/wave_springs/about_springs.asp
because of the reduced operating height it would seem that you could either have a shorter faster stroke, reducing lock time or a longer power stroke for more power.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Adam
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I think it would be impossibe to stack up enough of them to make a spring that would work.
These springs are made for tight places that have no room for a coil spring. It works great for the side washers on the gamo breaks barrels, this is what they use is a flat spring to remove the slack and increase the barrel tension.
A 10.5 inch stack of wavy springs would be a real trick to make a guide to keep them aligned.
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Scary stuff for me , pulling the action apart and seeing that hmmm can of worm's. Ed