How to Wind Custom Springs 

Cool idea Ben! Bake them in the oven at 500C for an hour and they should retain their springiness under higher loads.

I was so bored of winter and I wanted spring, thanks to this video I can make one myself.

Good stuff. I like the more casual editing style. You always have interesting projects, and it's the content that really matters.

Thanks! This'll come in handy. I hadn't even thought of making my own springs like this.

Another great video. I've just returned from my local model shop with a bunch of wires that I thought were posable, but turns out I'd picked PIANO wires!!! So searching youtube to see what I can use them for (I rarely take/send things back to the shop!) and then I stumble across your brilliant channel, where for the 3rd time in 6 months, you've got practical solutions for my self-induced (if that's even a word!!) Problems!! I've been looking for a particular spring for weeks and was getting prepared to dismantle all sorts of items around my flat!! So once again, thank you sir, your videos help spark the imagination in creative souls across the world 👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿💜🇬🇧

Great idea!! Thanks for showing us how to do it. Several years ago I was bending brass around an iron rod. The end slipped and snapped me really hard right on the knuckle of my finger. It was intense pain and even today I can feel the spot every time something touches it. Wear gloves and watch out for that end piece springing out of your hand.

Thank you! Best subject ever, i'm sure sooo many other makers out their hate it when they can't find springs.... It's like that ONE lego you can't find even though you just saw it ten seconds ago lol.

OK, Whatever you are using for a Mic, IS AWESOME. I was wearing headphones, and I legitimately thought some one was talking to me outside my room.

I love this video, this method has so many applications! I also love the idea of you releasing smaller videos every now and then too

This is pretty cool! I might just make custom springs for my projects from now on to add another touch of personality to them. Thank you for sharing this!

I'm ordering different strengths of springs all the time on ebay. This might actually save me alot of money. Thanks.

Man do I wish I was smart and creative like you people.

Nearly at a million subs Ben! hope your going to do a super awesome project to celebrate that mile stone bro. Top notch as always its nice to see your face in a video for once to

NightHawkInLight you sir just made my day! Thank you!

Fantastic! You have no idea how useful this is going to be!!! Well actually NightHawkInLight YOU probably do...

I love the new format, well done! give you more time to make awesome vids! Can you tell me or make a vid on how you do those sweet voice overs? the bass is awesome, my audio always sucks! Great tips on the spring can;t wait to see what project you'll use it with!

This knowledge will come in vary handy for me.

GREAT video! Ever so simple and yet very doable. Thank you!

To help keep the spring consistent, you might consider drawing a guideline on your bending tube or if you want different "densities" you might have some different paper patterns that you tape on.

nice application of an existing method. wouldnt have thought to ise it for sprinhs. my gf uses this method on a smaller scale when making jump rings for jewlery

YES THANK YOU!! You have no idea how long I waited for something like this ;)

10/10 beard and I support the casual video shooting.

Your safty note is well placed, I had a patient who scalped himself with the spring of a garage door and managed to even break his skullcap xD

oh man this is going to be really useful for me finding springs the right size and tension for my crosman 2240 is almost impossible without resorting to the internet.

Nice project, Ben

Best springs of that size you can get will be Wastegate springs, can get them in all kinds of diffrent stiffnesses and sizes! Springs to regulatre external wastegate pressure for turbo cars

I've waited 3 weeks for a new video and this is what I get!? 3 minutes on how to make springs!?

You could even add a ruler measurement to that angle iron support bar, with a slide that holds the wire. That way you could easily and accurately manage the spacing as you wind the spring.

When Morgan freeman dies you should take over and start making documentaries because your voice is mesmerizing

As always, excellence in "how to." Thanks!

I have done this but I didnt know about music wire good info

Nice! And it would have been great if you demonstrated the spring in use :)

his pupils are full of knowledge!!!

This is very useful for a custom gun that I'm building that I have to make my own magazine for and most of the other springs

Cool. Good to know if needing custom springs

Your videos have realistic information good job

Awesome! This adds so many ideas to my list of possible builds. Thanks a ton. And also, digging the beard.

Interesting. I will keep that in my tool box of methods. What I really need though are smaller springs. I often deal with firearms that were made 100 years ago and the springs need replacing, but good luck finding a spring just the right size and tension.

Very nice. That will come in handy. Thanks

Just a thought: if you took a bit of time with a drill and maybe a grinder (to make a flat spot on the pipe where a hole could be drilled.), you could build that tool with a few nuts and bolts if you don't have a welder.

Very nice video! This video is very similar to the type of videos I make.

Hey ! Tell me - a spring like this with Lot space between each wire Are more or less powerfull than a default spring (small space between wires) ? Or faster ? Or more resistence ? The power last more time ? Or less ?

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing this!

Do smaller videos like this between major projects. I really like the spring idea.

You could even 3D-print a hull with a negative imprint for the spring wire, that you simply put over a tube and then the wire precisely follows the negative shape. This way, progressive springs can be made easily

love the quality as always. Great job man

Perhaps welding a second guiding eye on the other end of your angle iron would assist you. Beyond that you have a great setup for basic springs. I do things in wood and this method could come in handy for some projects.

Also a good jig for chainmail rings.

Have you thought about drilling a hole in the angle iron to thread the wire through? This way you will be slowly pushing the receiver pipe as you turn. Also so the wire won't hurt your hands.

I completely forgot about you. Damn, I remember watching you back in 2010

awesome as always

Genius. well done.

I know that it might be difficult to keep the spacing between the spring windings constant for compression springs in this process of making them... But I have a question; What if you made a simple extension spring and then, using plastic deformation, simply stretched the spring to whatever size compression spring that you needed? The spacing between the winds would be basically perfect. But would the deformation cause the spring to be weaker, or maybe bend easier?

what if you needed to make a smaller spring could you attach a smaller rode and put a drill on it?

Awesome video as usual!!

I was hoping you would explain how to quench and temper the metal, and even "carbonise" it. I'm starting from chicken wire, which is very soft, and as you suggest, you need some heat treatment in a coal-based mixture to stiffen the spring (heat it to red and throw it into peanut oil), but it becomes incredibly brittle then, so you sort of anneal it back by leaving it a couple of hours in the oven at 200ºC to "resoften" it... I need to check, maybe next week-end...

Your beard is on point xD love the video format. You should try to do this a lot more often

Thanks for sharing. Now that it's been a moment or two, sense you have made this video & have had time to play & perfect... Have you attempted to annealing, shaping, & retempering..? How was your outcome ?

this is the exact opposite of the this old tony video, no cringey attempts at comedy, no intimidating math equations, no 2000$ industrial equipment, just practical techniques that anyone could do

How to make the spring from the big side to the small side like a cone?

Like your videos a lot, they come in real handy, has anyone ever told you you look like liam neeson?

You could use springs from hobby grade rc cars. The springs you made look like losi lst sized springs

Could you use smaller metal to make smaller springs

I did not expect you to look like that. You look good an everything I just thought that you'll look different from your voice. Thanks for the useful videos.

That is one majestic beard you have sir.

now I can finally make a kick drum pedal for my cajon!! Your videos never disappoint!

this is really great!!!! thank you!!!!!!!

Hey NightHawkInLight. I have been binge watching your videos and they are really awesome! I wounder if you could build a semi-auto airsoft pistol modeled off a real pistol like a glock :) I'm sure it would make an awesome project!

Very smart...Many thanks.

Outstanding!👍👍👍👍

great info! I really needed this!

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. (‭1 Timothy‬ ‭4‬:‭12‬ ESV)

Much love 🙌🏾

Will these springs wear faster than a bought one, eg loose the tension and become "slack"?

small videos are great

If you anealed the wire first...it would be easy to bend.. then just heat the spring to cherry red and then oil quench

Good to know thanks

Thank you for this idea. My father and I are snake hunters when we make our snake sticks we can never find the spring to complete or even fix the so thanks

please make the videos that require springs im so lucky so i acturly got a dad witch owns a spring factory :)

Simple and brilliant! Love videos like this! +1

While I prefer the more carefully edited videos, it would definitely be nice to see some small, easy to do projects in between your major ones.

Your face...... It's perfect, and fits the voice very well, nice beard too!

Now I just need to learn how to make small springs.

that is brilliant! nice

I would guess the method factories use is somewhat similar, of course with more advanced tools.

This video is still , in 2024, very usefull to make springs for nerf blaster modding. Cheers 🍺🍻

if you add another pipe to the other end wouldn't it hold better while turning?

no expensive lathe, Thanks

This covers compression springs, but do you have a way to make extension springs? because I have the need for one very specific one and I'd rather not order three hundred of them at once since I only need one

I love the new format and your face cam type explanation. (IMO you should have the camera slightly further away and keep your head straight. I'm not hating just some constructive criticism!!)

Do you think this would fit on my Honda?

Very cool

Man its so coool!!!!!!!!! I'll sure try this!!

With your self determination and slowly evolving beard you are becoming the Amish youtuber. You need a straw hat.

Thanks uncle

You have a one majestic freaking beard, rock on beard brother!

thanks. it is very good video

Grant? You said bake it in the oven at 500c for an hour? That's 932 degrees Fahrenheit! And where might someone find an oven that could reach that high of a temperature exactly?

Evening Ben, I was just wondering if you could make some more airsoft videos as they were very cool and I kinda miss them.

mr.Hawk i've seen you make some pretty cool stuff, but have you ever thought of posting a QnA video?