When designing helical or compression springs, you’ll confront several challenges and trade-offs, especially when it comes to getting the best possible performance from the wire. You will want to use ...

Ask anyone who’s ever lowered or lifted a truck and needed to compress a coil spring how nerve racking it can be. Truck coil springs are large and designed to hold the weight of a 4,500-5,500-pound ...

A new technical guide published by Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. provides high current transmission and distribution equipment designers with a detailed look at how springs can solve tough connecting and ...

When it comes to mountain bike geekery, perhaps no other area of the bike contains such a deep and mystifying vocabulary as the suspension. While you probably shouldn’t get too hung up on the ups and ...

Combines suppleness and support better than almost any air fork, but it’s heavy and has too few spring-rate options for fine-tuning I previously tested Marzocchi's air-sprung Z1 and while it performed ...