that's literally what's happening in the video of someone dropping a slinky, tho.

so a garage door spring isn't a tension spring because you can't replace it with a trampoline spring?

a more practical example, attach a toy car to a slinky, and the other end to the wall. pull the car away from the wall 10 feet. what happens next?

This post was edited by thesnipa on Mar 24 2017 01:19pm

please show me the video evidence of where a tension spring is replaced by a slinky and the device still works fine, if you cant your all defeated losers.

see above.

i looked above but only saw a ceiling

You're replacing one spring for another spring

A slinky is not a fuking spring, it does not even remotely serve the same function.

replace your garage door spring with a slinky and show me it works still and now we're talking

not there, video does not exist - you're talking out your ass again

This post was edited by card_sultan on Mar 24 2017 01:26pm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky

Slinky is a toy, a precompressed helical spring invented by Richard James in the early 1940s. It can perform a number of tricks, including travelling down a flight of steps end-over-end as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum, or appear to levitate for a period of time after it has been dropped.

so a spring in a mechanical pen isn't a spring because you can't use it in a car suspension? gotcha. makes sense.

like i said, slinky, toy car, wall. bam. springs back to the wall when extended.

if you can't visualize that and need a youtube video LOL