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 [...]
Joe’s Award Nomination
Friday 14th May saw the first Apprenticeship Work Based Learning Awards, which was held at Appris’ premises in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Appris is a Group Training Association governed by engineering employers and owned by Appris Charity Ltd. Appris have over 150 member companies and more than 400 apprentices throughout West Yorkshire, and specialise in supplying engineering manufacture apprenticeships. Our [...]
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 [...]
Easter Has Sprung Upon Us!
Happy Easter! This year it falls on Sunday 4th April. The date changes each year as, in 325 AD, the Council of Nicaea decided to introduce a rule to govern the date Easter was celebrated (independent of the Jewish calendar) due to Christians all celebrating the event on different dates towards the end of the 2nd century. As a [...]
Sponsoring The Solstice Saunter To Put A ‘Spring’ In Their Step
JB Springs are pleased to again be sponsoring the Solstice Saunter this summer – an annual 5-mile run that takes place to raise money for Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice. Organisers are hopeful that the event – with this year being its sixth time – will be able to go ahead on the planned date of the evening of the [...]
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 [...]
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