[Ducati] Shock spring info?

[John Sheerin]

I've never done this for a bike spring, but all you need is a known mass
that you can compress the spring with and measure how much the spring length
changes with that mass (well, force - F=m*a where a is the acceleration of
gravity).  So maybe you could set the spring on the floor, find something
heavy to set on top of it, and measure the deflection.  You'd ideally want
something heavy enough to cause enough deflection so that whatever method
you were using to measure deflection had a low percent error.

John
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Hill" <desmonic at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Ducati Owners Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 8:01 PM
Subject: [Ducati] Shock spring info?


> I've got a couple of springs in my boxes 'o stuff that I can no longer
find
> any numbers on ... First question: Who makes, or made, a dark red spring
to
> fit Ohlins / Penske rear shocks?
> Second question: Anyone have a creative method of measuring spring rate?
> Thanks,
> Don
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