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Not a bad guess. Not the parking brake spring, though. It's entirely enclosed within the instrument cluster. The spring wire diameter is 0.008" or I believe they also call it 2/0 (two ought) so it's pretty small. I'm not aware of spring wire smaller than 0.006" diameter so this is almost the smallest spring wire readily available - extension spring - 100 winds - right hand turn - appears to have been wound on a 1/16" diameter mandrel. I bought a couple of 12" long 1/16" stainless steel rods to use as mandrels and a roll of 0.008" music (spring) wire and I'm going to try winding one myself once this stuff arrives. I do have a Porter spring winder that I've used a lot but mostly with 0.055", 0.063" or 0.085" wire. Much bigger stuff than this, but they claim you can wind down to 0.006", the smallest I can find like I mentioned, so hopefully good to go.

I have to wear reading glasses and also use a strong magnifying glass to really see this spring in any detail. I took the picture and then zoomed in A LOT. That's how I was able to count the coils. No way I could easily do that even with the glasses and magnifier.

Guesses? I thought using the word "timely" in that last post would be a dead give-away.

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