Our three manufacturing plants are equipped with the latest in multi-axis machines to manufacture custom wire forms from 0.010” wire diameter up to 0.312” wire diameter. We also have experienced spring makers and state of the art machinery that enable us to coil and produce custom wire forms up to 0.625”.
Common Questions About Wire Form Springs
Wire forming is the bending of wire through various techniques used to manipulate metal into standard or customized shames. Wire can be bent using piecing, chamfering, shearing, or swaging among other methods. The process starts with the coiled wire that is straightened before it is formed into the desired shape or form. At Diamond Wire Springs, our custom wire fabrication techniques let you decide on the desired shape or form of your wire form spring.
There are a variety of different springs that can be coiled off a machine. These include Conical Springs which are compressions springs that are helically coiled round wires formed into a conical shape. Variable-pitch springs, which are also helical compressions springs that can reduce vibrations, improve stiffness, and are ideal for heavy-duty machines. Snap-rings or circlips are used to prevent movement in a lateral direction. Finally, there are nested compressions springs, very heavy wire, and very light wire.
Wire forming equipment can come in several types including manual and automatic machines. Manual machines can also be electronic but loaded manually. However, automatic machines use advanced technologies to complete production. Wire bending with a CNC machine bends and cuts the wire to the desired form and can quicken the wire bending process.
There are a variety of different spring materials used with different factors that manufacturers must consider including fatigue strength, cost, availability, corrosion resistance, magnetic permeability among other things. These factors impact the type of metal or alloy used for wire forming. Common metals include:
Alloy steel
Stainless steel
Copper
Aluminum
Carbon steel
Other alloys
At Diamond Wire Spring we could employ several methods to wire forming including CNC lathes or multi-axis coiling machines, otherwise sometimes a highly technical design maybe produced by hand.
Our South Carolina Facility is equipped with the latest in multi-axis machines to manufacture custom wire forms from 0.010” wire diameter up to .312” wire diameter. The Tyler Texas plant uses a CNC wire bending machine to produce their medium to large material wire form orders up to 625″. We also have experienced spring makers and state-of-the-art CNC lathe machinery in our Pittsburgh Plant that enables us to coil and produce custom wire forms up to 0.625”.
