Another serious attempt: we have a machine at work that can compress a spring
and measure the force - from this, I think we can work out the spring rate. Want
to send your springs to Vancouver? Another way, if the springs are already on
the car, is to measure the ride height - it has to be equal on both sides - and
then use those weigh scales the racers use. The spring rates are equal if the
weight on each front wheel is equal.
---------------------- Forwarded by Alan Inglis/BC Research/CA on 01/15/99 09:09
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"R. Toby Atwater" <tob@taltec.net> on 01/14/99 08:08:09 PM
Please respond to "R. Toby Atwater" <tob@taltec.net>
To: RBHouston@aol.com
cc: spridgets@autox.team.net(bcc: Alan Inglis/BC
Research/CA)
Subject: Re: More springs bs answer
Go Go Gadget Healey coil springs....
sorry...
....
But serously... I read somewhere the pros run current through em and
measure....[(I forgot) shit. it's not resistance but something else)]
....And anyway they can literally tell how well the electrons are shared and
therefor how ligned up the atoms on the springs are. When new you get high
numbers and when the spring is compressed and depressed repeately you get
lower numbers. And this tells you how far away from new they are (how used).
I will try to find it somewhere if you are really intrested but.... just
take em downtown and ask the pros.
Tob
>OK,
>
>Tie one spring to each foot.
>Go to top o tall buidilng.
>Jump
>Try to land on only one foot and mark height of rebound on side of
building.
>(Carry piece of chalk, or if in large city, can of spray paint)
>Repeat with other foot and compare marks.
>
>As you can probably figure out, I have no idea........
>
>Robert Houston
>74 Midget Katy
>
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