[tymill]

I'ts brutal, it's ugly, and it's coarse... but I sort my springs out into a relative order by bunging one under a side of my laptop and measuring how far it compresses...

There are spring reference charts around, and you can compare a mystery spring's behaviour to that of known one's to get an idea of its rating.

There must be more accurate ways of going about it, but I did this the other night to figure out the apporx weights of some random springs I picked up in a parts lot.

Cheers,
Ty

Originally Posted by Northy

Anyone had any reasonable success measuring/comparing springs at home with just general equipment lying around?

I have a couple of ideas how to do it but would like to hear other peoples ideas.

I'd like to basically compare one spring against another of a different diameter.

Cheers,

G