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Hold spring down-insert C-Clip Tool?

painttoad said:
how much tension is on the spring?

press down spring with thumb and middle finger of left hand, set clip in groove with right hand, hold in place with left index finger. grab pliers with right hand and lock the clip.
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Some of them have quite a bit like the one that holds the mechanism for moving the tone arm in place. And its easy to describe what might work as compared to actually pulling it off. I don't use pliers. I use a mosquito surgical clamp. Holds the e-clip or c-clip nicely.
 
This is a battery terminal clamp. This is the closest example I can find to illustrate the idea.
 

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painttoad said:
yes, yes it is because we have no pics :dunno:

good luck.
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Please tell me exactly how I'm supposed to take a picture?

"Here's a picture of an empty shaft where a spring is supposed to live but its gone because I messed up putting in the clip."

Many things are easy to describe while being difficult to achieve when doing it. I can describe brain surgery. I'm fairly certain no one wants me to be their neurosurgeon.
 
jsmiddleton4 said:
Please tell me exactly how I'm supposed to take a picture?

"Here's a picture of an empty shaft where a spring is supposed to live but its gone because I messed up putting in the clip."

Many things are easy to describe while being difficult to achieve when doing it. I can describe brain surgery. I'm fairly certain no one wants me to be their neurosurgeon.
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Yes. Sit the spring in place on the shaft and take a picture. You don't have to compress the spring to do that.
 
jsmiddleton4 said:
Many things are easy to describe while being difficult to achieve when doing it.
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over thinking it makes it even worse.

take the fore mentioned washer and cut a section out of it so you can compress the spring, install the clip then pull the washer out.

take a piece of sheet metal and cut a notch out, use it to compress the spring. insert clip.

it can not be as difficult as you are making it out to be. but you are leaving it to our imagination here.
 
jsmiddleton4 said:
Please tell me exactly how I'm supposed to take a picture?
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Pointing the camera towards the object of interest might help?!

- cut a piece of sel-o-tape or similar
- compress spring with fingers of one hand
- use other hand to tightly wound the tape around spring
- put spring over shaft
- insert retainer-clip
- cut/unwind tape to decompress spring
- done!
 
"Pointing the camera towards the object of interest might help?!"

For the many times I've answered this "?!" question there is NO picture to take. A picture of an empty shaft will do what exactly?

I'll try your suggestion in the next day or so as I'm reassembling a BIC 1000.
 
Really, this is what you have to complain about?!...suggestion on how to-do ignored conviniently.

Does it look like this?:

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I've found locking forceps to work quite well for me, when access with vice grips isn't available. They clamp very tightly, and are available in multiple sizes and tip orientation/shapes. These are almost a necessity in the auto field I work in

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Depending on the spring's diameter/lenght/strenght and one's dexterity, the following might be easier to achieve (especially when the shaft and the spring are seated in a tube/hole/hard-to-remove-tape-area:

- take a thread of some kind (sawing, fishing line...) and run it through the spring
- put spring over shaft
- tighten thread (compress spring) and make an easy to undo knot (like in shoelaces)...You might do this as first - depending on accessability.
- take two threads, if requiered
- put washer on
- clip on
- release shoelace-knot or cut it.

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PS: A thread is also helpfull with Jesus-clips (as in "Jesus, where did the damn thing fly?!").
 
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Forceps: I've tried. They leave marks on the shafts.

The staple remover could be a good option. I have a weed puller that looks like the picture posted. I woulda never thought of it. Thanks for suggesting it.

"Jesus, where did the damn thing fly?!"

Hilarious. Add to that praying while crawling on my knees digging through the carpet.

"Lord you know where it is. I know its a small matter but given you care about the hairs on our heads can you help me find this stupid clip?"

The thread idea could be good too. Not sure about adding washers to some of the shafts. Probably could. Another idea I have the back ground that coulda connected some dots. I'm a retired RN. Worked in ER some. What you're describing is how we get stuck rings off to avoid the last option. No, cutting fingers off so the ring falls off is not the last option. Cutting the ring is.

Unless of course you're Frodo and you need Gollum to bite your finger off to save middle earth.
 
A washer?..it depends. It's mostly, I guess, just for the spring to have a nice, flush seat.

Yeah, E-clips especially...putting them on a leash preventivly ain't wrong. They do magically reappear, though - fair enough, long time after one is done cursing, while tapping blindly on sore knees, and getting a new one. Unlike socks...gone forever!!!
 
Seriously, though, I haven't felt the need to do this but you could make a tool by cutting a slot into an old flat blade screwdriver and use that to hold the spring down.
 
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