Metric Spring Steel

[vontresc]

Anyone know where I might find a small quantoty of 20 x 3mm spring steel to rebuild the tail spring on my Ka-6?

It suffered a hard landing and one of the leafs got buggered up pretty badly. All I can find at the usual sustpects (McMaster and Grainger) is mild 1008/10018 steel in that size.

Thanks

Peter

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On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 7:25:21 PM UTC-4, vontresc wrote:
> Anyone know where I might find a small quantoty of 20 x 3mm spring steel to rebuild the tail spring on my Ka-6?
>
> It suffered a hard landing and one of the leafs got buggered up pretty badly. All I can find at the usual sustpects (McMaster and Grainger) is mild 1008/10018 steel in that size.
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter

I had to do a similar search about 10 years ago,[metric square tubing] If you search Metric Steel USA you can find a few vendors, here are a couple.

https://www.metricexpress.com/?gclid=Cj0KEQjws_m6BRCv37WbtNmJs-IBEiQAWKKt0PvcFUFE0erfsihOIm0rGK-1haQep3yfy7dSZQzh2P8aAuEy8P8HAQ


http://www.metricmetal.com/

Chris

[AS]

On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 7:25:21 PM UTC-4, vontresc wrote:
> Anyone know where I might find a small quantoty of 20 x 3mm spring steel to rebuild the tail spring on my Ka-6?
>
> It suffered a hard landing and one of the leafs got buggered up pretty badly. All I can find at the usual sustpects (McMaster and Grainger) is mild 1008/10018 steel in that size.
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter

Peter - try www.onlinemetals.com. They may be able to help you.
Uli

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Peter you can do as I did once, buy a piece of SAE spring steel just a little thicker than you need and then bring it to any machine shop, they can shave it down to any desired thickness.
Dan

[Stephen Damon]

Try cross-cut saw blades and some large hand saws, possibly large bandsaw blades!

[AS]

On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 11:29:36 PM UTC-4, Stephen Damon wrote:
> Try cross-cut saw blades and some large hand saws, possibly large bandsaw blades!

Not a bad idea! I looked at machine hack saw blades. The thickest one I could find is .1" thick and 2-1/8" high.
http://www.mcmaster.com/#hacksaw-blades/=12ujos2
Not sure how 'springy' or hard these blades are, though but worth a try.
\Uli