[Shop-talk] weakening a spring

[Brian C. Kennedy]

Ron, try wrapping a rubber band around the clothes pin. Size, number of
wraps and location on the clothes pin should give you lots of control. You
should be able to repeat it fairly well on the other close pins.
Good Luck
Brian



> From: Ron Horwitz <ronglue at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:08:33 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Subject: [Shop-talk] weakening a spring
> 
> Have a project that requires something like a
> clothespin to hold two delicate pieces of fabric
> together.  I'd like to weaken the spring on the
> clothespin a bit.  I know that I can just force the
> jaws open for a couple of days and that will help
> some.  I can disassemble and bend the spring a bit,
> but that seems to be fairly irreproducible, and I need
> four that are fairly similar in clamp strength.  Will
> heat lower the spring constant?  Do I heat with the
> jaws closed or open?  Any other thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ron