A compression spring is made to compress, so the coils are spaced wide enough to give room for compression. An extension spring is made to extend, so the coils touch in their unstretched position.

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Most textbooks and guides do not clearly distinguish between types of helical compression springs when giving equations for solid height of the spring. Fortunately, exact values of solid height ...

In designing compression springs the space allotted governs the dimensional limits of a spring with regard to allowable solid height and outside and inside diameters. These dimensional limits, ...