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Heat Treatment: Ensuring high spring quality

In this blog post, we look at the use of heat treatment in spring manufacturing to optimise quality. The quality of any product is directly and heavily impacted by the procedures carried out during its production. There are a range of processes and practices which can be implemented to ensure the highest quality of manufacture is achieved, with heat treatment being one of these. The effect of temperature on initial tension and elastic limit of stainless steel [...]

By JB Springs|2022-09-06T10:45:59+01:00August 10th, 2021|

Youth Skills Day

World Youth Skills Day was created back in 2014 at the general assembly of the United Nations. Held each year on 15th July, the event communicates the importance of skills and knowledge for the best chance of success in the working world. Over the last five years, the number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) has increased by around 14 million – to 273 million in 2021. Last year, the effect of COVID on the working [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-04T12:05:26+00:00July 9th, 2021|

Welcoming the Itaya RX20

In March, we invested in a brand new CNC machine – our second Itaya RX20. This machine is capable of producing torsion and tension springs, as well as wireform, from 0.5mm up to 2.0mm diameter wire. With a rotary wire feed and rotary wire guide mechanism, this machine makes creating complex wireform shapes accurate and efficient. The machine also boasts laser and camera measurement capabilities – contributing automation and accuracy to the production process of both wireform and compression, [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-04T14:55:38+00:00June 7th, 2021|

Prestressing: Ensuring high spring quality

Prestressing is a quality-improving process often implemented during the manufacture of springs – mainly compression springs – to enhance their mechanical properties and improve their fatigue life (life cycle). The process involves compression by loading a spring past its elastic limit until it reaches a solid position or a predetermined length (the latter is less common) and plastic deformation occurs. This results in a number of enhancements to the spring including: Increased elastic deformation Increased load capability Improved relaxation [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-09T14:36:09+00:00June 7th, 2021|

How Are Springs Used In Phones?

April is a significant month in the history of telephones. On 14th April 1983, the UK's first cordless telephone became available – it could operate up to a distance of 600 feet from its base. Manufactured by Fidelity and British Telecom, it retailed at £170 – which is equivalent to £401.08 in today’s money! In this blog, we look at the history of phones and answer the question 'How are springs used in phones?'. On 25th April each year, [...]

By JB Springs|2022-05-16T10:15:27+01:00April 20th, 2021|

Shot Peening: Ensuring high spring quality

In this series of blog posts, we will look at how to reduce the net stress on springs through quality manufacturing. In this post, we delve into how shot peening achieves this. This process traces back to its use in the automobile industry in the late 1920s. It is still widely used today in aerospace and automotive high performance component production. What is Shot Peening? Shot peening is the cold working process of firing spherical pellets at the surface [...]

By JB Springs|2021-10-29T10:57:09+01:00March 23rd, 2021|

Pies For Pi Day!

14th March is ‘Pi Day’. This is due to the resemblance the date has to the figure Pi to two decimal places – 3.14 – when written in the format month/day as it is in the USA – along with American Samoa, Guam, Japan, Cayman Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Ghana, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Togo, the Virgin Islands and Canada! The christening of 14th March as Pi Day was decided by US [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-23T14:01:11+00:00March 14th, 2021|

Celebrating our Apprentices – National Apprenticeship Week

Last week saw the 14th annual National Apprenticeship Week, the theme of which was ‘Building the Future’. National Apprenticeship Week is an annual week-long celebration and recognition of apprentices and apprenticeships across the country. Our Apprentices JB Springs has been in the privileged position to provide placements for many local apprentices over the years. It is always incredibly rewarding to see them go on to achieve impressive feats. Back in 2016, we welcomed two apprentices – Joe Wright and [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-04T10:53:48+00:00February 15th, 2021|

The Perfect Present for Little Literature Lovers!

Back in October, a very special book was published – Jo Nelson’s The Secret Story of Springs. What makes this book so special to us, is that we were asked to contribute our spring expertise – and duly did! Published by Oxford University Press, The Secret Story of Springs introduces children to the abundant applications in which springs are used – from tweezers to trampolines – and has a great glossary of 300 words to help children achieve success [...]

By JB Springs|2020-12-10T15:26:55+00:00December 9th, 2020|

JB Springs Feature in STEM Fantastic Futures

Our Sales Director David is a STEM ambassador with Transpennine STEM Ambassador Hub and joined the Wednesday and Thursday Fantastic Futures webinars. In his cameo, David shared Springtelligence knowledge, like how a tea bag uses springs and what to do if you’re asked to make something impossible…! It was great to hear from other industries, including Becky Richardson and Simon from the Trans-Pennine Upgrade Programme and Senior Director Jenny Thirlway from Iksuda Therapeutics on their development of cancer medicines – with the [...]

By JB Springs|2021-11-23T13:56:59+00:00December 9th, 2020|