[elky] Re: 2WD vs. 4WD Truck

  • From: "ladams21@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <ladams21@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:09:05 -0400

>Torsion springs do break. ;-)  They usually do so on a cold, rainy morning
>when you're already running behind to leave for work or school.

>While I agree that they are reliable, they are not pleasant when they do
>break, and they are very dangerous to change.

  They are pretty safe actually. Just use your bars to tighten it.

>I try to make it a point to never walk under a door while it is either
>opening or closing, because that is the most likely time for a spring to
>break, though the last broken spring I encountered happened while the door
>was closed, overnight.

>I'm actually less familiar with the "traditional" springs (though I have
>seen them) than torsion springs.  I guess it's because most houses I've
>been in have been built in the late '70s or later.


    The torsion spring doors were originally the cheap doors... Lightweight
metal ones. All of the 80s houses here have heavy wood doors that a torsion
spring just can't support. 

            Robert Adams


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