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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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