Tricycle tinkering has stalled at the minute. I'll be back on the case soon enough.
Haven't done anything to the Pug, but been doing a bit of looking up what I need. Eventually got an a 4 month test extension to 4th Aug. Despite sitting on the drive, I've renewed the tax today. Even if I declared it off road before end of May, the gap needs to be at least 3 months before retaxing or else they charge back tax for the gap. Robbers!
Back to that broken OSF spring: Not having a pair of death sticks handy, I went looking for a sturdy strut spring compressor. Given I don't have a van to work on (just in case) I still went looking for a big fuck-off heavy duty one.
Working my way back from the overpriced posh Hazet 4900-2A/5 (309mm span / 26kN / Impact / €1100)
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https://www.hazet.de/en/products/specia ... 2A-SLASH-5
I found a cheaper version of the big bastard, the Hesselink FS-8000 (315mm span / 26kN / Impact / €579)
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https://www.hesselink24.de/federspanner ... 0_173_1057
Then found a Chinese (great bunch of lads) one that looked the same, the Dongning Tools (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. DN-B1064 heavy duty coil spring compressor (317mm span / 26kN / Impact (yes/no) / €133-145 unit price):
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https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/ ... 92266.html
"High capacity of max. load:26.000Nm. Max,working stroke:317mm.
Suitable to work with air impact. Inchudes 3 pairs of C jaws for a wide of vehicle applications. Safety design of free turning since unacceptable overload. 3 pairs of yellow covers help protect lacquered springs surface from damage.
Do Not Use Impact tools."
Make your bloody mind up lads! Impact or no impact? Fuck it, who cares? Went off to find a Euro supplier...and found the TecPo Profi Mc Pherson Federspanner Satz 300131 (317mm span / 26kN / non-impact / €189). TecPo is just an own-brand label of PoTec Vertriebs GmbH /
www.autoteile-werkzeuge.de on Chinese-sourced tools.
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https://www.autoteile-werkzeuge.de/tecp ... 00-nm.html
Ordered it from PoTec, coughed-up €16 for the shipping. One week later my order still seems stuck with a status of processing (Bestellstatus: In Bearbeitung) despite being an in-stock item, so I email them in my finest German and an auto-reply acknowledgement comes through shortly after, but I hear nothing back. Wait a bit longer until yesterday and although the order was still showing as "In Bearbeitung" rather than "versandt", it turns up yesterday lunchtime with the DHL man.
I send a follow-up email to them thanking them, but noting the slight damage to the case in transit. This time I got a very prompt reply asking me to send them some photos. This time round the response speed was kind of what I was expecting the first time, but then the last email may have fell through the cracks.
Verdict so far: Fuck it is heavy! (c. 30kg)
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As usual with these things, now that I am armed, all the springs on my fleet of vehicles will refuse to break now.