Euclid Frameworks http://www.euclidframeworks.com Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:13:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 How Springs are Sprung http://www.euclidframeworks.com/how-springs-are-sprung/ http://www.euclidframeworks.com/how-springs-are-sprung/#comments Tue, 27 May 2014 22:53:13 +0000 http://www.euclidframeworks.com/?p=186 The euclid Delta Arms come with some extension springs to help get rid of lash in the ball joints.  I was fortunate enough to capture footage of them while they were being made!  Check out the video below: The machine is called a Coiling Spring Machine.  It takes some time to program the initial setup, but once thats taken care of you […]

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