Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: rusty on February 28, 2014, 05:33:16 PM
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Old pliers, and I think , sheep shearing cutters came sometimes with a weird spring that looked like a flat piece of metal rolled up like a cigar, and compressed from the ends in between the handles . (I think KD used them for a while early on also)
Does anyone know what you call that kind of spring?
Has anyone ever , anywhere, seen new ones for sale?
My dad is looking for them to make some project, and I don't think I have ever seen anyone selling them new, but folks here tend to surprise me :)
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Go to the local hardware store and buy some garden shears, they often use that kind of spring.
(http://www.awangarden.com/images/shares.jpg)
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I think papaws suggestion is probably best. I haven't seen those springs anywhere.
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Felco spring-
http://www.amazon.com/Felco-Pruning-Shear-FELCO-SPRING/dp/B004AGMI14 But this might be just a brand of shears.
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Interesting, and a good start, if they are putting them in new gardening tools, someone much still be making them....
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Replacements-
http://www.groworganic.com/replacement-spring-felco-pruners-except-6.html
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Thankyou papaw :)
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Felco spring-
http://www.amazon.com/Felco-Pruning-Shear-FELCO-SPRING/dp/B004AGMI14 But this might be just a brand of shears.
Felco IS a brand of pruning shears, and around here*, they're considered the professional's standard. If those springs fit your application, I'd trust their quality.
*Part of California's wine country, and, before that, apple country; so people know quality pruning shears.
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*Part of California's wine country, and, before that, apple country
Ah- Boone's Farm and Ripple!!
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*Part of California's wine country, and, before that, apple country
Ah- Boone's Farm and Ripple!!
Gravenstein apples, still made into Apple Time sauce. Gravs are some of the finest apples ever, during the brief period that they're ripe; but they don't travel well, alas.
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Gravenstein apples, still made into Apple Time sauce. Gravs are some of the finest apples ever, during the brief period that they're ripe; but they don't travel well, alas.
Some of the finest, yes! Especially for cooking, like Granny Smiths and Pippins. I think they make the best apple cider of all. A couple of places up at Apple Hill make Gravenstein cider during the season. Living in Sacramento and making the occasional foray to the Santa Rosa area, I don't have to worry about how well they travel.