theczechone Just to expand on your question. Think about this. If you have a spring with 8 turns it will take 269lb of force to compress 1in. Now if you remove a half turn IE if you cut the spring. You are now asking those 7.5 coils to move the same distance. They are not going to like that since each turn is now being asked to move even farther. They can't share the workload anymore. And for Math sake:
11,250,000 x (.610 x .610 x .610 x .610) / 8 x 8 x (4.485 x 4.485 x 4.485) = 269 Lbs.
Now if we cut say 1/2 turn off this spring the active turns become 7.5.
11,250,000 x (.610 x .610 x .610 x .610) / 8 x 7.5 x (4.485 x 4.485 x 4.485) = 287 Lbs.
Hope that helps.