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Inspired by: Yauhenand his model: Draw Bar SpringA design concept/proposal, how to use a COMPRESSION SPRING as an alternative TENSION SPRING.Notes:For my design I used a winding ratio of 1 to 4 (wire diameter / average coil diameter)The wire diameter of my compression spring is 3 mmThe average coil diameter is 12 mmThe number of windings and the neutral length are arbitrarily chosen.The model is available in following data formats:STEP file (.stp) of the assembly, and all native files (.prt) and (.asm), in a (.7z) folder, for users of »PTC Creo Parametric 2.0«
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