[Spam] [Ducati] Shock spring info?

[MS&F]

Hydraulic jack, bathroom scale, block of wood and a pair of calipers.  
Find something solid that he scale, spring, jack and a piece of wood 
will fit under.  Put the block of wood acroos the scale, spring on the 
wood and jack on the spring.  Tighten it enough to hold everything.  
Zero the scale (or take a reading) and measure the gap between the block 
of wood and the bottom of the jack.  Put on the presure and record the 
scale reading for every millimetre compressed.  You should get about 12 
readings or so till the bathroom scale is out of range.  Plot these on a 
graph and draw a line through them the way you should have been taught 
at school, to get the best average rate for the spring.

Crude but it works.

Stuart

Don Hill wrote:
> 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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