{"id":1918,"date":"2023-11-20T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T00:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:03:50","slug":"spring-balances-repairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/spring-balances-repairing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Balances &#8211; Repairing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You cannot repair a spring once it has gone past its elastic limit.<\/li>\n<li>The best solution is to ensure the end cap doesn\u2019t come off \u2013 that\u2019s how the spring over-stretches.<\/li>\n<li>Glue the base\/ end cap to the tube, to prevent students over stretching the springs.\u00a0Sikaflex glue is recommended.<\/li>\n<li>Superglue works well. A drop each side and push parts together, the glue will spread around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You cannot repair a spring once it has gone past its elastic limit. The best solution is to ensure the end cap doesn\u2019t come off \u2013 that\u2019s how the spring over-stretches. Glue the base\/ end cap to the tube, to prevent students over stretching the springs.\u00a0Sikaflex glue is recommended. Superglue works well. A drop each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}