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Actually springs as we all known sheltered in fountain pens when you were kids and different games and naughty tricks were achieved by using these springs. However, extension springs have definitive means of transferring load from the support to the body of the spring. Hook or the end of the extension springs is the major factor of every spring as it holds the different ends of the components that have to bring together. In mechanical or engineering language stress, concentration factor plays an important role, which holds the bending stress when hook is off set and that implies the torsional stress.

Whenever the spring is elongated while loading there is no any additional built in safety feature like the one in coil compression springs therefore whenever the spring exceeds its extension limit it loses its resilience. With advanced technologies in spring, manufacturing this problem is eliminated to some extent by pre-stressing and using closed coils. Exact tension of the spring is calculated by determining the exact permissible strength for the initial pre-stress and stress due to loading and attempts are made to manufacture the component in such a way that this permissible strength is never crossed. The coils in the body of the springs are all active coils except the one added for obtaining the body length.

Different types of materials are used for the manufacturing of the extension springs including plain carbon steel, alloy steel, and corrosion resistant steel. Sometimes non-ferrous material like phosphor bronze, beryllium copper and various nickel alloys are also used. Usually a common material UNS Steel used for the manufacturing of hot worked, heavy coil, flat, leaf and torsion bar springs. Due to the affect of material and it’s processing on the tensile strength of the extension springs various methods are used like hot or cold process analyzing the size if the material, spring index and desired properties.

When it comes to safety features of the extension springs then there is no any safety geometry similar to compression spring because these springs are always in tension at their break point. Therefore often the working stresses of these springs are limited to three-fourths (3/4) of those for compression springs having similar geometry, strength and material.

Peninsula Spring over the years has been the leader of the extension spring manufacturing with an ability to manufacture any length of springs with wide variety of end loops. Performance and reliability is assured for features extension springs such as reduced length, unusual shapes, combination designs, and special bends and attachment methods. With different techniques pertained over 29 years of experience in the spring manufacturing industry Peninsula Springs will always be a right choice for you to manufacture your custom designed extension springs.

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