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Post by mustang1989 on Jun 29, 2016 11:15:07 GMT -7
I stumbled onto this several months ago when I was building my '56 Ford F-100. I had seen all examples of homemade return springs from wire wound around a small needle so I gave it a shot. I'm a pretty patient guy so I gave it several tries and just couldn't get uniform wraps to get a realistic "spring" look out of it. I needed something small enough that would look more like a spring than a botched attempt by me. That night I changed a turn signal bulb in my truck and "DING".............the light bulb turned on ............literally.
Take a 3157 Turn Signal Bulb (You've got two different size "springs" to choose from here) and break the glass:
Then just rob the filament out of it:
a little closer:
and you've got yourself a perfect throttle return spring.
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Post by CoyoteCrunch on Jun 29, 2016 12:00:18 GMT -7
I will definitely be making a stop at AutoZone on the way home one of these nights!
Thanks for the tip - Awesome!!!
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Post by mustang1989 on Jun 29, 2016 13:22:22 GMT -7
No problem CC. That'll be working on my aircraft builds as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 15:47:51 GMT -7
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by mustang1989 on Jun 29, 2016 18:33:38 GMT -7
Thanks there Iceman.
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Post by warmachine on Jun 29, 2016 23:23:57 GMT -7
can go a size up and do coil's that way to crazy stuff you pick up from 4x4 builders
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Post by mustang1989 on Jun 30, 2016 2:08:45 GMT -7
Thanks Larry! I usually don't have a problem with the bigger stuff as long as I have a screw or something layin' around to guide my wraps. I made these front coils for my '54 Chevy Panel Wagon that way:
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warmachine
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Post by warmachine on Jun 30, 2016 12:38:05 GMT -7
lol great mind's they say think alike running-around-smiley-emoticon
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Post by mustang1989 on Jul 1, 2016 18:39:31 GMT -7
LOL! I hear ya on that Larry!
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Post by mustang1989 on Mar 26, 2020 6:20:32 GMT -7
I'll wake this thread back up as this was one of my best "discoveries".
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