Lee Spring has published a helpful guide entitled Top Ten Tips for Compression Spring Design. This is available free of charge by emailing [email protected].
The guide covers a variety of topics, including Hooke's Law, spring rate, direction of wind, dimensions and geometrical tolerances, spring index, load, number of coils, pitch and spring set. In addition, the guide explains compression spring end types, spring shapes and spring types.
Lee Spring claims to offer the widest range of springs in the UK and has engineers available for creating custom designs to suit specific applications.
To request a copy of the Top Ten Tips for Compression Spring Design, email [email protected] (please mention MachineBuilding.net).