@djozz, I had thought about using a 6mm top initially, but as you said, more surface area for contact is better for yield strength and mechanical durability.
Using BeCu C17530 38% IACS should be just a bit worse mechanically than your phosphor bronze springs, and quite a bit better than the C17500 45% IACS Intl Outdoor fat spring.
Edit: We are also at 1511 big springs, and 1032 small springs.
Once we get close to the 2000 spring mark, I think I will pause the big spring group buy, and let the small springs go up to 2000pcs too.
This is getting a bit too big for my taste :laughing:
Once I get the samples and test them for the electrical properties, but most importantly, the mechanical properties and see that they are good, I will reveal the final price details.
And as said before, if all goes well with the group buy, Iāll ping Richard and ASF so you can get these springs all
If there is a worldwide need for these springs it is possible I could hook us up with a China distributor if needed. That is of course if BlueSword wants that.
Thanks Texas Ace. No problem with that. I have learned a lot about contacts, springs, and this really helped me along the way.
And so, pinging a Chinese distributor too like Kaidomain/Fasttech/Banggood would be great to get these springs to everybody once the group buy is done
You could also ping Lumintop to put my springs inside of the new XHP70.2 GT project haha. That would be helpful to push the XHP70.2 to its limits, or even do triples/quads inside if that is even possible in such a light.
Agreed, there are plenty of nice things that I would like to buy from the US, itās great engineers and entrepreneurs, but itās pointless. Shipping and duty just make it stupid.
And itās going to get far worse if the POTUS carries on with his madness and tries to pull up the drawer bridges. (Oops, please disregard, that might sound like politics). Making a comfy little short-term bubble for his uneducated electorate and big business chums, second term on his mind, meanwhile going to hell in a handbasket.
Get them made anywhere but in the US and shipped direct. Itās just a spring, not complicated, plenty of manufacturers could do it.
Even Harley Davidson understand this, and are reacting sensibly.
Yeah. A Chinese distributor would be the best bet for international shipping and purchases.
I just pointed to MtnElectronics and ASF so the US guys could get them quickly while not waiting for the Chinese slow boat.
And since even if you were to buy 5000 springs at a time, the amount would be lower than 800$US, so it would not be subjected to the stupid new 25% tax.
Iām really trying to understand what your saying here and donāt really want this to be polictical but It looks like this is contradicting yourself.
You can ship a item from china to the US and cost the buyer nothing and most all other parts of the world. Once the item reaches the US port the united states postal service has to deliver this item to the buyer, its a great deal for the buyer and seller. If Mtn Electronics ships this same item to you (another country) the cost is to high and makes it unreasonable (No Sale, you buy else where). :person_facepalming: The united states postal service takes the item to the same port the china goods came from so no difference in cost for the united states postal service. So how is this fair to Mtn Electronics.
Maybe Iām missing something here, I thought this was what all the fuss was about having fair trade.
I hope somebody does something because it sure doesnāt seem fair to me.
One simple question Tom Tomā¦. Why do you insist on making political posts & comments when it is clearly against the rules??? As you surely must know by nowā¦.
Do you feel the Forum Rules are beneath you & you need not comply??
What I post is factual (with a bit of discussion).
Fact is that the US is ploughing a path to nowhere.
In the case of e.g Harley, read this and weep:
Itās a big wide world out here, and if the USA ceased to exist weād be stuffed, for a short while. Nearly saw that when Lehman Brothers collapsed and Merrill Lynch were found out. And the ongoing consequences. Nevermind Enron. Could happen again, confidence is everything until it changes.
But lets back out now, this thread is about springs, of which you Teacher have no specific knowledge to contribute, though are very vocal in all sorts of threads. Consider that a slap-down.
ā¦ā¦ A āslap downā from you Tom Tomā¦ by way of keyboard. Surely you jest.
But you avoided answering the question & just interjected more of your political rhetoric & opinions.
And, one way or another; you have made your āsuperior intellectā very plain in most every thread you post inā¦ā¦ which are many also. I applaude you for being of such high intelligence.
I, on the other hand; am just doing the best I can with the limited IQ I have. Oh wellā¦ such is life.
But back to that one simple question. Why do you seem to think it is OK for you to post your rhetoric & opinions that are of a political nature??
You do it fairly oftenā¦. and by now surely you must know it is against BLF RULES.