Old hacksaw blade as a place to start? Should be close in dimention and easy to come by. Might be a bit on the brital side but think you could temper with propane plumbers torch?
On January 24, 2021 3:02:56 PM PST, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 22:13, Nicklas SB Karlsson <nk@nksb.online> >wrote: >> >> Need a small springs, not very many, very simple flat metal. Force in >> middle should be around 150N and guess 45mm long, 10mm wide , 0.6mm >> thick will do the trick. Anybody have any idea where it is possible >to >> buy suitable material? > >Maybe flat ground stock? >https://www.engineeringsupplies.co.uk/1mm-x-10mm-x-500mm-metric-gauge-plate.html > >Too thick, but could be surface-ground. > >Depending on the displacement you might not have to harden it. >Hardening doesn't make the material any stiffer, it just means that it >can bend further before the elastic limit is reached, > >0.6mm is thicker than clock springs: >https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224266845701 Is thinner and wider an >option? > >High performance spring steel strip is hardened by cold-rolling, not >by heat treatment. When I was working in spring steel development I >could have rolled you some to your specification, but that was a long >time ago. > >-- >atp >"A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is >designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and >lunatics." >— George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
