Wanna see a "spring"?

[Karl B. Andersen]

I've got a buddy who works at in a plant that makes custom hydraulic cylinders.
This was to be one of the components in a "small" cylinder, but it was off-spec and was headed to the recycle bin! In fact, there were three of them!
They were manufactured by a spring company from a specific 5160 melt designed for industrial spring manufacture.
Anyway, they are 1 3/4" stock and were loaded in a pickup with a fork lift!
I can attest to what it takes just to stand one on end.
I can see some LARGE choppers coming from this stock!

 

[Burton Harruff]

Damn! That is one big spring. Nice score that will keep you busy for some time.

 

[ironbikemike]

Karl,
Don't let one of those springs fall on your toes

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Damn! That is one big spring. Nice score that will keep you busy for some time.

I've already got 2400 feet of 1" square, but I figure I can turn these into some LARGE "Limb Loppers"!
One of these might make a nice table base!

 

[indian george]

Damn!!! You could build a small house on the sucker.

 

[SteelSlaver]

U bolt a piece of plywood on top and jump off the roof onto it LOL. 1 3/4" though it might be like landing on a cement block.

 

[NickWheeler]

Holy crap that's cool as hell Karl!!! :thumbup:

I REALLY LIKE Jim's idea! We need volunteers to try it out first though. Maybe the guys from that show Jackass would pay you BIG bucks to use that spring in their show!

 

[A C Richards]

That is too cool Karl. How much does it weigh?? I picked up a 2.5" dia cat spring but not nearly as long as yours and I do not know what the steel is yet. Chuck Bybee is doing a spectro on it for me. It is always nice to get known materials... Great find.

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Holy crap that's cool as hell Karl!!! :thumbup:

I REALLY LIKE Jim's idea! We need volunteers to try it out first though. Maybe the guys from that show Jackass would pay you BIG bucks to use that spring in their show!

I've got three! We could get creative!

 

[A C Richards]

THREE,,, Now that's just wrong. I thought I was a steel whore, oh yeh I AM. (I would not turn them down either)

 

[wiggins]

Karl, bet you won't be making any neck knives soon!!! Great score. Bill

 

[Evan Martin]

that would make a bad a** pogo stick

 

[scottickes]

that would make a bad a** pogo stick

A menage a tois pogo stick... I'm not sure of the spelling since I'm not french, but you get the idea.

 

[mykulmorris]

My wife say's this is a dumb question but I wonder if it were compressed all the way and you stood on it and let it go, how far would it shoot you in the air???
YEEEEEEEEEEHHHAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

 

[Allen Newberry]

Now that's a spring!!!!

Allen

 

[Chuck Gedraitis Knives]

Strap a shoe to the top of 2 of them and you can bounce your way to the blade show.

Do you think that the steel might hold any type of memory once it's forged out?
A friend tried to forge bearing races and they kept wanting to curve.

 

[J.S. Carter]

Now that's a spring! great googly moogly those would be awesome overload springs on the back of my pick up!

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Do you think that the steel might hold any type of memory once it's forged out?
........

No.
Chuck, that spring is almost so big around it's practically straight!

 

[Phil Dwyer]

U bolt a piece of plywood on top and jump off the roof onto it LOL. 1 3/4" though it might be like landing on a cement block.

That was a good one. When my 7 year old boy heard me chuckle he came running over and wanted to know what was so funny. So I showed him the photo of the spring and told him about the idea of putting board on it and jumping off the roof. He proclaimed he'd do it, that it'd be FUN boinging all over the place!

Great score Karl!!! Sometimes it's hard not to be jealous .

 

[BrianThie]

Wow Karl, that is some spring! I am curious as to what would be found in a Large Cylinder.

Brian