Do Leaf Springs Get Tired?

once they are grossly overloaded and degormed, they are shot

just replace 'em

any large city has a company that specializes in making replacements

No such word as 'degormed'. Google produced some nasty results.

;-)

Hank

LOL!!!! I'm pretty sure he meant deformed! F key right next to the G key. Bob

They do get "tired" and sag although probably not nearly as much as coils do. They also will fatigue and break if they carry a heavy load for lots of miles. The trouble with "add a leaf" is that it makes the whole leaf spring package even stiffer which may not be what you want. There may be a spring shop you could go to which can check them out, re-arch them, and rebush them for you. Truckers go thru a lot of springs and visit such shops regularly if they run on rough roads a lot.

-- Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts:

"What, sir, is the use of militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. . . Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise a standing army upon its ruins." -- Debate, U.S. House of Representatives, August 17, 1789

Al: I think that Hank has hit upon a winner there, "degormed", it fits in the sentence and we all knew it's meaning ( flexed past it's elastic limits), this can imply either cycle failure or non elastic bending. The word adds a unknown characteristic value to a material, the "Gorm", some imaginary elastic load value, wonderful.

Married to an English girl and having been often referred to as being "Gaumless" and having never known what a "Gaum" was, to have presumably once had and to have now lost, I feel a definite affinity to Hank's new word.

Maybe one day we will find it in MacHinery's Handbook

Spud

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s*it

godd*m arthritis

It was the Surgeon's new word. Give credit where credit is due.

Doc

He does have arthritis.

~KJ/TLGM

Hee hee! We's jes havin' sum fun!

To be honest.....I Googled before my brain realized the correct word.

Thanks for the chuckle. Sorry about the arthritis.

Hank