OK, please, someone with the actual education, assist me!
-Cycling a spring over and over will eventually weaken it, right? (And/or what will weaken a spring, if it's only certain things that will cause it?)
-Will pausing somewhere in this cycle with the spring compressed, for an indefinite amount of time, continually weaken the spring as it sits static? Or, conversely, will only repeated cycling weaken the spring?
I am thinking of situations such as storing a camera with a cocked shutter, or leaving a gun with a loaded magazine, thus compressing the mag spring while it's in storage.
Gun nuts and camera people have urban legends and old wives' tales passed from generation to generation about this, but I am looking for an actual educated response to this poorly-phrased and probably incorrectly-worded question... Any takers?
-Cycling a spring over and over will eventually weaken it, right? (And/or what will weaken a spring, if it's only certain things that will cause it?)
-Will pausing somewhere in this cycle with the spring compressed, for an indefinite amount of time, continually weaken the spring as it sits static? Or, conversely, will only repeated cycling weaken the spring?
I am thinking of situations such as storing a camera with a cocked shutter, or leaving a gun with a loaded magazine, thus compressing the mag spring while it's in storage.
Gun nuts and camera people have urban legends and old wives' tales passed from generation to generation about this, but I am looking for an actual educated response to this poorly-phrased and probably incorrectly-worded question... Any takers?
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