Springs from CNC

William Hughes has extended its range of springs to include spiral springs. Rather than using soft wire which is then hardened and tempered to give the required characteristics, William Hughes uses CNC technology to process spring hard wire into the required shape. The spring is then stress relieved and finished - resulting in a spring that is faster to produce, lower cost, and is said to look better and to have better performance characteristics.

Spiral springs - or clock springs as they are sometimes inaccurately known - are a type of torsion spring.

The use of profiled or square wire, allows high performance parts to be engineered for applications in awkward or confined spaces.