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EP's secret!
« on: 16 March 2007, 20:31:22 »
He forgot the spring compressors for me!  :o

So where's a good place to get those really big zip-ties so that I can hold the spring coils together while I change the struts?
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« Reply #1 on: 16 March 2007, 21:01:38 »
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He forgot the spring compressors for me!  :o

So where's a good place to get those really big zip-ties so that I can hold the spring coils together while I change the struts?

Sorry Todd

I will pull the shed apart tomorrow and pop them in the post.

Many years ago I had a friend who had a lucky escape. He was using two large jubilee clips screwed together to do the same thing :o
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Re: EP's secret!
« Reply #2 on: 16 March 2007, 21:05:29 »
When......................BOOOOOIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG! It took them two days to get him down from the church steeple ;D
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Re: EP's secret!
« Reply #3 on: 16 March 2007, 21:09:22 »
It nearly took his nose clean off his face ;D
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Re: EP's secret!
« Reply #4 on: 16 March 2007, 21:35:48 »
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He forgot the spring compressors for me!  :o

So where's a good place to get those really big zip-ties so that I can hold the spring coils together while I change the struts?
Don't even think it.

Try a hire shop if you need to get them done before EEP can send them
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« Reply #5 on: 16 March 2007, 21:37:14 »
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He forgot the spring compressors for me!  :o

So where's a good place to get those really big zip-ties so that I can hold the spring coils together while I change the struts?

Sorry Todd

I will pull the shed apart tomorrow and pop them in the post.

Many years ago I had a friend who had a lucky escape. He was using two large jubilee clips screwed together to do the same thing :o
Don't worry about it Pete.  It works fine, but you need 5-6 spread all the way around.  You crank them down while it is still together and you know they can take the load.
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Re: EP's secret!
« Reply #6 on: 16 March 2007, 23:06:02 »
I would earnestly implore you not to.....

If it goes Pete Tong, and it most likely will, then you will need more than a wee strip of elastoplast....    :'(

The springs are meant to do the stuff for a car weighing in at close to the two tonne mark, not a mini or an escort and are correspondingly strong...
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« Reply #7 on: 17 March 2007, 05:17:34 »
It will need a lot more than that...these are progressive springs so any un-bound coils will simply expand and when the pressure is released
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« Reply #8 on: 17 March 2007, 06:15:39 »
Do not do it M8, wait for the proper tools or get them from machine mart, they are not that expensive. Not as expensive as a stay in hospital or loss of a body part. :o
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Re: EP's secret!
« Reply #9 on: 17 March 2007, 06:32:47 »
Well, there goes another 30 quid and more lumps of metal to rattle around in the boot for the next 2 years.   >:(
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