Thanks people...Brian, the "spring" is the top of a "Totem-Tennis" set-up (you know; a tennis-ball on a string attached to a pole, that you can wack around...) I took a close up of the top bit of it and did a bit of photoshop trickery with it... I actually submitted this pic to "Design Graphics" magazine as a entry for their Portfolio Issue. I hope they consider using it. :-)>