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Originally Posted by ZDan
That technician has no idea what he's talking about! Spring rate is a function of material modulus of elasticity, wire diameter, coil diameter, and number of turns (i.e., how many coils there are). The "mass of steel" is not directly related to spring stiffness. If you reduce wire diameter, you reduce mass and reduce spring rate. If you increase number of coils, you INcrease mass but still reduce spring rate. |
To be fair, his english wasn't very good, and he did try his best to simplify things for me (I don't speak Japanese btw). I'm sure the technician is well aware of the other parameters/factors.