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Re: Front Spring Shortening

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Subject: Re: Front Spring Shortening
From: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 21:43:00 -0400
See?  Hysteria. :-)

Like I said, the heat from the cutting torch will only travel about 2" down the
spring, doing no damage to the rest of the coil.  The 2 inches that do lose
temper will settle into the perch better then a squarely cut end, which tends to
poke into the perch.




Joe Curry wrote:

> NEVER....NEVER Cut springs with a torch!  YOu will end up ruining the temper
> of the spring.

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