09-19-2020, 06:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2020, 08:03 PM by heavyhorse.)
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4 hours ago, threelegs said:
What weakens a spring is repeatedly working it.
What burns my buttcheeks is that valve springs compress and release thousands of times a minute, for a quarter million miles.
When was the last time you heard someone say "My car/truck/tractor has to go in for a bad valve spring"? Shit, every vehicle I have has 250K+ miles, my big tractor is 50 years old, a daily-use industrial tractor before I got it, my little tractor is 60 years old. The only spring that's ever stretched was a clutch pedal return spring. From running over brush.
But 25 coyotes later the trap springs started breaking. One night there was a house-shaking noise and one of the garage door springs had broken. Now I'm having my doubts about the magazine springs, and I use them mostly for varmint control. I don't shoot paper. If something gets shot, it needed to be dead. It's not like I put 25,000 rounds through it. WT bloody F?