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 Oct 10 2009, 01:42 PM
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I need some help on understanding back spring tension i have a idea of what it is and how it works but im confused and i usaully dont like asking unless i completey have to i look around first and i been looking but still a lil confused ... so my question is when increasing back spring tension what exaclty are you doing.. are you increasing the length of your stoke / angle of deflection... are you increasing the force of the machine? what exactly are you doing? thanks in advance sorry for spelling
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QUOTE (Placas @ Oct 11 2009, 10:42 AM)  I need some help on understanding back spring tension i have a idea of what it is and how it works but im confused and i usaully dont like asking unless i completey have to i look around first and i been looking but still a lil confused ... so my question is when increasing back spring tension what exaclty are you doing.. are you increasing the length of your stoke / angle of deflection... are you increasing the force of the machine? what exactly are you doing? thanks in advance sorry for spelling well you can be doing both, including speeding it up, so incresing back spring tension can increase your stroke, increase your force and speed up your machine. understanding machine tuning is not really mastered by reading on the net, my best advice is to get a whole bunch of springs and play around, see what happens when you apply tension there, decrease it there ect ect. -------------------- The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. |
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