What makes Garage door springs so dangerous? I feel like the spring on a car shock absorber holds way more energy, and I’ve done that dozens of times with spring compressors of dubious quality. Just don’t put your body where the spring would like to go.
Additionally, it’s under tension. When suddenly not under tension, it has to release all that energy somehow - and these things have a LOT of potential energy wound up in them, it’s like your engine throwing a rod - except you, since you’re working on it, have a tendency to potentially wind up as the engine block in the analogy.
What makes Garage door springs so dangerous? I feel like the spring on a car shock absorber holds way more energy, and I’ve done that dozens of times with spring compressors of dubious quality. Just don’t put your body where the spring would like to go.
Garage springs become a lathe, spinning really fast. I’m sure you can find examples of lathe accidents on NSFL channels.
Additionally, it’s under tension. When suddenly not under tension, it has to release all that energy somehow - and these things have a LOT of potential energy wound up in them, it’s like your engine throwing a rod - except you, since you’re working on it, have a tendency to potentially wind up as the engine block in the analogy.