Best way to bend a spring ???

I need to shorten and bend a new hook on my brake pedal return spring. Should I heat where I am going to bend it and let it cool slowly, or just bend it cold? It is a fairly heavy guage wire, a little thicker than a coat hanger....Fido

 

heating it make make it brittle. I would bend it cold,

 

Bend it cold.
If you really want to,after bending,stress relieve it at 500 degrees F.


Use your Wife's oven,when she's not watching.
Tell her I said it was OK.

 

Learned my lesson about the oven, she was suppose to be shopping all day, I had painted some parts and put em in to bake....boy was she pissed when she came home early to a smokey house

 

Check with continental John,thats his bizz.

 

I had this site in my favorites, lots of cool info.

http://home.earthlink.net/~bazillion/intro.html

 

Find a place in town that makes them, have them "de-arched". I did it on my '37 Chevy p/u.

 

FS- one set of de arched throttle return springs. 5.00.

 

Well if you reheat it it's going to loose a bunch of its elasticity and finally settle in a position.. If you bend her cold, she'll be a bit brittle were the bend is.. So it's a 50-50, my choice would be bend her cold.. If you send me the specs I may have one close I could send you in a prehard state, most spring steels are pre hard to ease in forming.. Then hardend or heat treated later on in a final process..

Thanks continentaljohn