File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_2003/puptcrit.0309, message 71


Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:19:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Emily DeCola <emzwemz-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Spring steel



I find spring steel (also called music wire, piano wire) at hobby shops and model shops most reliably. Pearl Paint also carries it in New York and Philadelphia.  It's worth buying it in three-foot lengths, straightened -- as I've found it impossible to straighten myself.  
 
Anyone know any tricks? 
 
The "Sheet form" spring steel I found at a shop called Victor Machinery Exchange off Canal St. in NYC -- an incredibly grimy and interesting place with very mean salespeople. This stuff is not actually for binding and shipping large pallets of wood, but is in fact for making sprung machinery components.  It comes in various gauges (I have .008) and is about 8" wide x 24" long. It's also blue.  I love the stuff - but be careful, it's INCREDIBLY SHARP. You can dull it slightly with a dremel grinder or a sander. Fun sparks.  
 
I find that the springy qualities of the metal strapping are less impressive, and that it crimps more easily than the stuff I mention above.  
 
Emily DeCola


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