With expeditions to Mars at the forefront of future space exploration, it’s exciting to look to the past with Vulcan Spring’s involvement with the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars, the Viking 1 Orbiter and Mars Lander. “Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it…
Vulcan Spring has just introduced a line of stock constant torque springs. We call this our Contorque® spring. In this blog, we will give some details on how to use these springs in your design. Contorque® springs have been discussed in previous blogs, so this blog will focus on the installation and use of the…
A constant torque spring is a specially stressed constant force spring traveling between two spools. The spring is stored on a storage spool and reverse-wound onto an output spool. When released, torque is obtained from the output spool as the spring returns to its natural curvature on the storage spool.
