Spring compressors

Hi Chaps,

I'm trying to reassemble some suspension units and I need to borrow some
spring compressors. Anyone in the Glos/Chelt/Tewks area have a set they
could let me use?

Here's hoping...

 

Car or bike? I've got some big ****-off car ones if they're any use.
Between Cricklade & Swindon.

--
Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

Moped. *

I was considering trying G-clamps but A&E are fed up of the sight of me!

I suppose I shall have to throw myself on the mercy of the local bike
dealers.

 

Whaaa? IWHT you could get those back together without spring
compressors. Failing that, you can normally compress the springs by
hand and tie them up with a bit of welding wire.

 

Alternative'y a few big cable ties.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

I once helped a mate fit new coil springs to his car. We were too poor
to have compressors.

We did have a jack, paving slabs, a shed doorway and a hacksaw.

Didn't half make a bang when we "released" the home-made compressors...

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

I didn't use compressors whan I changed the springs and socks on the
Rangie.

 

I'm in Longlevens. When can you get here?

 

stand down - i have a set on the way from a friend of a friend. plse excuse
no caps, have sticky doughnut in left hand.

 

I used to live on Kendal Road in Longlevens, number 43.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
SR250 wivva topbox
TS250C
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

U haz Rangy?

 

No, but I thought if you could squish a Rangie spring by hand, a moped
spring would be child's play!

As it is I've managed to do it. It was great fun: the jaws of the
compressors I borrowed wouldn't fit between the coils so I jammed two bits
of metal between the coils - but not all the way, obviously, because the
plunger goes up through the middle and I had to leave room for that, then I
hooked the jaws around the edges of the bits of metal and put all my weight
on the spring as it was bending and trying to break out of the compressors
whilst Herself held the locking nut with a spanner and I turned the
adjusters and... to cut a long story short they only exploded outwards once
and I successfully avoided visiting my friends at A&E (but not by much).