Left And Right Hand Springs

Left wound spring and right wound spring respectively for our entire self storage mini warehouse product line click here.

Left and right hand springs.

On the other hand a left hand winding spring is wound in an anti clockwise direction and has its end of wire on the left side. If you are screwing a compression spring onto a mating part you would want the coil direction to matc h that of the threads. Right or left hand wound. Usually you will have two springs on your door which will be color coded.

Most of the time the end on the right hand wind is red and the left and wind is black as you can see on the graphic below. As for the torsion springs this system applies a little differently. To ensure the correct wind please refer to the winding chart below. Please remember the side of the door a spring is located on does not indicate the wind of the spring.

Right hand wound rhw vs left hand wound lhw. Common torsion spring uses include clothespins clipboards swing down tailgates and garage doors. It is hard to tell the direction of winding from the front side. If it can be.

Knowing the wind direction of right left hand wound spring is important while working with the torsion springs easily determined by holding it in hand. To determine the compression spring coil direction hold the compression spring with its axis on a horizontal plane. Right hand wound a coil spring can be wound in either a left hand or right hand direction similar to a screw type thread. If the end of the spring wire in the 9 o clock position then the spring is left hand wound.

For compression and extension springs. Sometimes though you wouldn t want the pitch of the spring to get caught up in the pitch of the threaded mating part. Pick up your spring and look into it. With torsion springs the color code demonstrated whether the spring is a right wind or a left wind usually black represents a right wind while the red color represents a left wind garage door spring.

The easiest way to determine if a spring is left hand wound or right hand wound you have to look at in a specific way. If the direction of the coil from top to bottom can be simulated by bending the index finger of the left hand the coil is left hand wound. Compression springs can be left or right hand coiled. In applications such as one spring operating inside an other it is necessary to coil the springs so that the helices are in opposite directions right and left.

The right hand winding springs are wound in a clockwise direction.