<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">What is this “recycling bin” that you refer to? If it is the blue plastic bin which beer bottles go into, and you pay someone to empty for you, I would suggest that you get yourself another bin, which gets filled with metal scrap, and which you take to the scrap yard on an as needed basis, at which point, your scrap turns into beer money. <div><br></div><div>Long winded way of saying take them to the scrap yard. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Tom Coradeschi<div>tjcora@icloud.com</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 12, 2023, at 10:42 PM, old dirtbeard <dirtbeard@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi guys,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I just replaced the rear leaf road springs on my 1954 MG TF, and they are working well with new urethane bushings, etc. Handles and rides great now! What a difference from the old sagging springs and the perished rubber bushings! Not a bad job to do, either. Fortunately I have a four post lift, some air jacks and a sliding center panel on the lift so all of the work was done standing with a good headlight shining on the underside of the car.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">That is not the problem/question, however.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Now I have a set of MG TF leaf springs that I removed and I do not know what to do with them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I can stack them in the corner of the garage, but I doubt that I would ever use them again.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I always can just toss them in the recycling hopper, but I wondered if any of you figured out some good "second life" for the spring steel there? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I suppose I could make knives or something...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I thought about taking them apart and saving a few of the longer leaves for potential future welding projects, etc. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I cannot foresee ever trying to rebuild and reuse them when the new ones are reasonably priced and available.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I just sort of hate dumping some 69 year old MG leaf springs in the recycling bin...</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best,<div><br><div>Doug</div></div></div></div></div>
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