Some Guy

Yeah, that website is VERY old...

SG

I figured I should show my face for the first time in nearly a year, seeing that there are still some nerfy Michiganders.

If one is hosted in the Detroit area, I might be interested when I become more active. West side is too far for me.

SG

May not be able to come to anything this year, things have turned around for me...

I am interested in attending wars if they're in a good area.

Springs are designed so that they don't reach stresses high enough to cause plastic deformation, ensuring that the elastic modulus stays relatively consistent over the life of the spring. The severe deformation you're describing results in strain hardening, which increases the hardness but lowers the yield strength of the spring steel. The higher elastic modulus results in the initially greater strength of the spring, but the lower yield strength means that you stray into plastic deformation during regular compression, which will gradually lower the yield strength until it reaches an equilibrium below the characteristics that the spring initially exhibited. I would posit that your spring is now actually measurably weaker than before your stretched it, or you haven't actually cycled it through 1000 shots like you say you have.

Stretching springs is bad. This is well understood, and it doesn't stop being true because some guy says so.

Although the spring metal is weaker after stretching, its compression is a lot heavier and still is. I combined the stretched LS spring with a stretched NF spring, it has a stock bolt with AR removed, and I am blasting streamlines way past 100 ft angled (because flat range with streamlines is unpredictable). Although I said I shot it 1000 times, I probably have shot it more like 600 - 900 times. I have been blasting with it regularly with high capacity mags/drums in battles and extensive range tests for the past year, and even after that, pulling it back is still about 3/4 the strength of a [k26]. I do agree that stretching springs is bad for the spring and the blaster, but with proper reinforcement, doing it can be a good alternative for a long time to get more distance out of your blaster than a worn spring.

In conclusion, it blasts obviously harder than it would have if the springs were never stretched, and turns out to be a good alternative in the LS if the spring is already greatly worn and your willing to do reinforcement. When the spring becomes crap (which still hasn't happened to me) replace it. This should no longer be a big deal, I just wanted to say that it's not that it should never be done, it can work for a long time, and I proved it. If you want to protest more, test it out yourself first.

~SG