Coil spring compressors, £9.95 delivered, ebay again.
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Perfectspecimen wrote:Coil spring compressors, £9.95 delivered, ebay again.
Are you as excited about those as I am about my bag Vince?
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Vince, Hope there heavy duty for your merc, Boy are you in for some fun,
Cru, The boy in the middle, He should have used the socks trick like Tom Jones, Thats a poor package, And a poor bag, What could you get in that, Chewing gum,
Cru, The boy in the middle, He should have used the socks trick like Tom Jones, Thats a poor package, And a poor bag, What could you get in that, Chewing gum,
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Not really excited but it will do the job. Sure these clamps will come in handy for other jobs too.
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Yeh 12" heavy duty ones. Job looks easy in the Haynes manual. I will find out in a couple of days.
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£50 in petrol and a meal at the Harvester after the Ice show.Perfectspecimen wrote:Yeh 12" heavy duty ones. Job looks easy in the Haynes manual. I will find out in a couple of days.
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Today I will buy some Kronenborg in the pub. Spring Compressors arrived today, spent a few hours in the rain trying to remove spring, not off yet (you were right Reg). Tomorrow the grinders coming out, throw the Haynes manual away.
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Perfectspecimen wrote:Today I will buy some Kronenborg in the pub. Spring Compressors arrived today, spent a few hours in the rain trying to remove spring, not off yet (you were right Reg). Tomorrow the grinders coming out, throw the Haynes manual away.
Yes, Mr Haynes never learnt how to spell two words, “seized and corrosion”.
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Wish to hell I had paid someone to put this spring on. Got the old one off in about 5 minutes with grinder, good start. Put new spring in vice and proceeded to clamp up compressors, needs to be about 10 inches long. Well, nearly got there and then one compressor slipped, spring jumped out of the vice and whacked me straight on the chin. Jeez, nearly knocked me out it did. Good job it never hit my head. Might end up with a blue chin, nice bump on it too. Anyway I will try again tomorrow, this time I will stand to one side.........
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Vince, You need a suit of armour, Nasty buggers they are,
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Perfectspecimen wrote:Wish to hell I had paid someone to put this spring on. Got the old one off in about 5 minutes with grinder, good start. Put new spring in vice and proceeded to clamp up compressors, needs to be about 10 inches long. Well, nearly got there and then one compressor slipped, spring jumped out of the vice and whacked me straight on the chin. Jeez, nearly knocked me out it did. Good job it never hit my head. Might end up with a blue chin, nice bump on it too. Anyway I will try again tomorrow, this time I will stand to one side.........
Can picture exactly what you done...
Sorry,but...
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Chin Up Vince. 
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Mighty amusing then, ha bloody ha.
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SOON BE SPRING
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Easy jet song, Its spring again its spring lets fly away, If ever i get a spring to do i zoom round to the local merc independant, He has the merc tool, go back a couple of hours later, Pay him, Get back to base, Stick a ton on it, jobs a good one, All limbs intact, Just not worth the aggro, Baasa to do if your ill equiped,
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But I did buy the tool Reg. I always try and do stuff myself anyway. Bit late to take it to a garage, only three springs on it now!
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Ordinary compressors aint man enough Vince, Springs on merc are big boys, We have tried with 2 sets and 2 men, They will kill you, Caged compressors for mercs, Big buggers. You aint seen nothing like them, Cost a fortune, And if your not doing them every day not worth buying,
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German motors, Four Sprung dog technique.
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My BIL done one once went straight through the garage window killed him if it had hit him he always brags.
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I over wound a Timex once...I could just about hear it break. 
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The Lone Ranger wrote:I over wound a Timex once...I could just about hear it break.
Poles apart............
Nuts & Bolts Only...
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Adam Mint wrote:The Lone Ranger wrote:I over wound a Timex once...I could just about hear it break.
Poles apart............
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It should really be in the music request thread, but here you go...
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I think Adam needs a signature
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Stuff has been moved again I see, pub then.
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Bit of SPRING cleaning Vince! 
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