assembling board with spring/coil battery contacts

[bentyler]

Say I have a design like the board in the first photo. The battery contacts have a bend at the end in order to be soldered in a slotted through hole, as well as a bend to fit into the battery housing. Do pcb houses like pcbway do the bending of the contacts, or will I need to have custom contacts made?

[Psi]

You could get PCBway to bend them, but you'd have to provide enough info to ensure they get it right. Which might be tricky if they cannot test it.

Ideally you would send them a jig that they can use to bend them and another jig to hold them in the right position while they solder them.
But I guess you could spec the exact positions and angles they need to bend them in a document and let them figure it out.
I dunno what they would charge for that though, or how good the result would be.

If you are getting pcbway to put the board into the enclosure then you might be able to get pcbway to bend them by hand using pliers to "make them fit".
as part of the assemply step, but you are taking a chance they may not do it how you want.

If you're not getting pcbway to put them into the enclosures then you could bend them yourself once you get them. They would just need to be soldered onto the pcb at the correct length.

But yeah, the best way to do it is some sort of a jig to bend them, or as you say, buy a custom spring that is what you want to start with.