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Originally Posted by rwsmith
All I'm saying is that a paper clip can be used as a spring, but it would be a very poor one, even if used BELOW yield stress like a magazine spring. So could a spoon, or a screwdriver. Other metals have the same properties as spring steel but in vastly different degrees.
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Sure a paper clip is a very poor "spring," but that's irrelevant as I have attempted to explain previously in this thread; bending and fracturing a paper clip requires stress ABOVE yield, unlike stress in magazine springs, which is BELOW yield. THUS, the analogy that was directed to me regarding bending and fracturing a paper clip as some kind of evidence that magazine springs experience wear only when cycled, but not when statically compressed is a baseless and irrelevant analogy -- and is contrary to what magazine spring manufacturers have very clearly stated!