Re: [ATM] Mirror cell ramblings re: thin plate glass3/4-inchx24-inch

["Bob May" <rmay@nethere.com>]

Like all steels, there are a number of different steels that
spring when properly treated.  Back in the old days, auto springs
were a great source of that kind of steel for the backyard
metalworker hobbiest as you could go down to the junkyard and get
a spring for almost nothing, do some blacksmithing on it and make
any kind of spring you really wanted to have for the job at hand.
You can weep and moan all you want to because you don't have
exactly what you want but there's a lot out there that you can do
with what you can get for very cheap.
Bob May

rmay at nethere.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: <fundo@bellsouth.net>
To: Bob May <rmay@nethere.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Mirror cell ramblings re: thin plate
glass3/4-inchx24-inch


> --- Original message from "Bob May"
<rmay@nethere.com>: --------------
>
>
> > Just pointing out the possibilities.
> > As to spring steel, guess what your car rides on?  Those
springs
> > are definitely much larger than 18ga.!  Besides, with a large
> > thin mirror, you're not supporting as much weigth as a full
> > thickness mirror anyway.
>
> And the steel in your car is a specialty item made just for the
auto industry.  It is called "spring steel"  but is isn't the
type used for common small springs.
>
> *****-----
> Dan F.
> Memphis, TN
>
> PS, Don't forget.......you have shock absorbers on your car.  I
dob't recall Bilstein making units that small.  <VGB>
>

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