Bandit Yoke Springs

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The springs that pull down the slide box on my Bandit 1590 chipper broke. I was wondering if anyone has a replacement part that works similarly? Any links to a garage door spring or something? I seem to have to replace these once a year or so.
 
Out of curiosity, where are they breaking? Coils or mounting hooks? The springs, at least mine aren't expensive and all springs have a "cycles to failure" rate. I highly doubt that you are cycling the yoke springs to failure though. Sounds more like something is not aligned or undue stress in being applied by something foreign.
 
Frank is right... sounds like something is out of alignment or you have them too tight. I would check it out, maybe contact a service tech and definitely have a couple extras on hand. I don't think you want to go the garage door spring route.
 
They break one at a time at the very end of the spring where it connects to the chipper. They are in the factory position which is pretty loose. . They go up and down in a straight line so there isn't any alignment issue. I wasn't fond of the garage door spring either but thought I'd ask if there was a similar replacement out there. We have to go through our bandit dealer here in town.
 
This is NOT a factory approved fix

YMMV

I heated the spring then bent it into a new eye and reinstalled

This changes the temper of the spring at that point so decide if you're concerned

When the spring broke again after months of use it didn't fly off or whip around We hardly heard the noise from the break while chipping. Did the same...remade eye and went on again

There has to be a vendor or supplier to buy from
 
Tom Dunlap said:
This is NOT a factory approved fix

YMMV

I heated the spring then bent it into a new eye and reinstalled

This changes the temper of the spring at that point so decide if you're concerned

When the spring broke again after months of use it didn't fly off or whip around We hardly heard the noise from the break while chipping. Did the same...remade eye and went on again

There has to be a vendor or supplier to buy from
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Tom I thought to do the same thing but was sure it would break soon after. My thought is these are just repurposed from some other use anyhow, if I could stock a few on hand I could save some money.
 
Wow, we get ~5 years or more out of a set on our Bandit, and not because we're babying it. That sounds awfully quick to be breaking springs.
 
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