Talk:Spring steel

message: Piano wire, lockpicks and stage swords? All that steel-making technology just for this?
I'm surprised spring steel isn't used for, say, springs? Doh. 24.85.143.66 (talk) 05:58, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't this stuff used for truck leaf springs and car coil springs and farming equipment s-tines? Shouldn't that be in the article? AWC3117 (talk) 23:01, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Applications 

message: Is it possible to cast spring steel and get a usable spring?  What about sintering or MIM to produce complex leaf springs?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.41.40.24 (talk) 15:46, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  castable spring steel alloys? 

message: The article summary says that the critical ingrediant is silicon, yet in the table of common spring steels listed, I find other metals, and then sulfer, but no mention of silicon.  Is this a mistake?  If it's not a mistake, then the article is not self consistent.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.70.15.180 (talk) 05:52, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I am also surprised. In addition, I wonder why the reference page by the supplier used as source does not allow to see the preceding nor the following page. That, in combination with the unusual choice of steels, makes me suspect it is a hidden advertisement. -- Zz (talk) 17:52, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  its not an ad, its just based on far too little knowledge and is yet another example of a Wikipedia article that has been edited more than 120 times.  Referring to two different editions of Machinery's handbook is eccentric at best and makes it look like there are more references than there are. I don't have the precise edition of Machinery's to check whether the reference to music wire as the most common use of spring steel is right, the 1966 edition doesn't say that and I don't have a later one.  Some other points: there are a lot more than five grades of steel used in making springs.  Nickel is not the only possible alloy (hint: vanadium is good too, among others).  It is nice to know that the primary application of spring steel is swords (assuming that the ordering and number of words in the list indicates importance - a normal assumption in most cases), but that may not be true in countries other than the US (it may be that the reference to swords is an act of vandalism that no one noticed?  That kind of attack is extremely prevalent in Wikipedia).  220.237.45.151 (talk) 21:21, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composition 

message: I think there could be more information added, such as the history of spring steel.
: "Spring" steel is ancient, as long as iron or steel making. However the old springs were of very poor quality - as their metal was poor, a spring had to be extremely large in relation to the stored energy.  The leaf springs of early gun locks are a good illustration here.
: An important development was Huntsman's crucible steel in the mid 18th century. This was a deliberate attempt to make a good quality steel for the increasingly important market for clock springs. Particular care was taken to produce a steel that was not only strong in bulk, but also had a structure that preserved this strength even in thin sections – an important feature for springs, compared to some other high-end steel uses of the period. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:12, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  When was spring steel invented and by who? 

message: A link to the Springbar article might make a good addition to this page — either worked into the article content itself (types of products made with spring steel) or in "See also."  Xlea Nollmav (talk) 01:21, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  springbar tents