Any Good Uses for Busted Leaf Springs?

Soundguy · May 24, 2011

knife or sword..

I used a piece to make a replica roman short sword. did some grinder and file work, then whire wheel over the pitted area.. wrapped the hilt in leather twine anfter grooving out for it.. so it's full tang.. etc.

awesome looking.. and heck.. it's like a 18" metal club

( section I used was straight.. )

soundguy

Iplayfarmer · May 24, 2011

Looks like I'm keeping the spring.

Tig · May 24, 2011

Wives everywhere are shaking their heads at the beauty we see in broken, rusty metal.

Soundguy · May 24, 2011

that's why we don't throw scrap metal away.. because it's not scrap.. it's just a project waiting to happen...

soundguy

Combustix · May 24, 2011

strap em into the bottom of crab or shrimp pots make good wieghts

Soundguy · May 24, 2011

that's what common rocks are fore.. not good knife / quality steel!!

soundguy

Taylortractornut · May 24, 2011

I saw a new use today a man had a straight peice of spring and had cut out a notch on his rotary mower blades and welded the springs to. It made a super blade from a softer new blade.

magicheater · May 24, 2011

bikerdib said:
Leaf spring material is a hard steel. I can be used to make all kinds of tools and such. If it were me, I'd keep every piece of it.

I agree! I actually bought a homemade tool many years back at a rummage sale. I offered less than than it was priced at and the woman said "if you can tell me what it is I will let you have it for that". I said "it is a tool for removing shingles from a roof". She said "gee! my husband was a roofer." Got the tool! It was a cut off baseball bat with a piece of leaf spring bolted to it, very effective too!, still have it.

RoMad · May 24, 2011

When I was a boilermaker we would fit butt joints of two sheets of steel together with two leaf springs. You would put one in each hand and put the thin end in the joint and you could move the pieces quickly and accurately for a perfect fit. The second person would tack weld the joint as you went. Two guys could go around a large vessel in a very short fitting and tacking it.