Air Spring
Air Spring
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Is this a true statement: "Unlike a metal spring, and air spring actually absorbs energy as it cycles, making the job of controlling rebounding much more straightforward".
I understand metal springs store energy, my question is in the accuracy of the word "absorb". This is in reference to a Firestone Airide spring.
Thanks for any input, Jim, Minnesota
I understand metal springs store energy, my question is in the accuracy of the word "absorb". This is in reference to a Firestone Airide spring.
Thanks for any input, Jim, Minnesota





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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Be prepared for your experiments to expand exponentially. If that air is doing anything beyond springing, its temperature will change rapidly along with the spring rate.
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Conversely, the rate falls on rebound, so the air springs will give a gentler thump as the vehicle becomes airborne and the shocks reach full extension. That might be a virtue to a hard-core snowmobile racer; it wouldn't make a difference to me.
You still need shock absorbers; the air bags don't absorb enough energy to make them irrelevant, so the quotation is, if not fallacious, at least grossly overstated.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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The real advantages of the air spring are weight, ease of spring rate change and the last portion of travel being naturally progressive. The beginning and middle of the travel, on air systems, is still mediocre, for performance uses, air is still being mastered.
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