Material is Beryllium copper. I'll post link to a sketch in a few days.
Need it to deflect for the potential energy in spring.
Lever is operated by hand.
I have to redesign a copper flat spring. One end of the spring is fixed and the other end is free. In order for it to function, the free end must deflect/compress 1 inch.
A lever must strike the free end of the spring in order to deflect it 1 inch. But sometimes there's a bounce back from the...