I am going to need to build a suspension system for a hand made small car-like creation (which has wheels) which will need to carry a load over some hilly terrain.For the suspension system I will need use rubber bands and other things. Anyway will the rubber band be more similar to a coil spring or a leaf spring.And any ideas how to build a suspicion system with:lengths of threaded rodeye hocksvarious shaped plastic membersstringnuts boltsrubber bandsPlease help me :)
Leaf springs are multi layered. Imagine a single 2x4, 10 feet long. Put up saw horses, and lay your 2x4 on top. Nail each end of the board to the horses. Climb on top and walk across the 2x4, it will sag most at the half way point. Now cut a second 3x4, 6 feet long. Place it two feet in from each end. Nail it and walk across again. This time it will not bow as much, and if you add another 2x4, four feet long. One foot in on each side from the ends of the six foot board. Nail it and climb up. It may not bow at all and if it dose bow it will be a fraction of the single ten foot boards bow. That's a leaf spring, it's layered. You could use a Popsicle stick and get the same results. A coil spring is tempered coil of steel that is designed to support a predetermined weight. It starts out longer and compresses under the load. It can't be compressed it the point of letting the suspension and the frame meet. That's where the bounce comes from, it's loaded with the vehicles weight, and is able to contract and expand just a little more, without the Components touching. Look up torsion bar suspension, it's really cool. .
