On or around Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:08:54 +0100, "David French"
<david.not.spam.french@virgin.net> enlightened us thusly:
><me@care4free.net> wrote in message
>news:rd7hd011ce75te6eeiq8cg12sssctmta45@4ax.com...
>> >Can anybody recommend where to get a decent set? (UK.) The Machine Mart
>> >ones I had were bendy, slippy and generally quite dangerous, so I took
>them
>> >back.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >David
>> >
>>
>> Frost Auto Restoration have some good ones.
>>
>> www.frost.co.uk item m270,
>
>Thanks Chris, but unfortunately they look suspiciously like the
>banana-oriented Machine Mart ones, which gained a whole nother dimension
>when used on a Discovery coil spring.
>
>Any alternatives?
>
I made me own, which were bendy, slippy, etc., but at least I didn't pay for
'em. They really need re-doing with larger threaded rods. The "ends"
seemed OK, which were bits of steel box section, with a hole through it and
a notch, sort of like this:
__________________
| __ |
| / \ |
|/ \__________|
^
|
hole through here.
2 bits of threaded rod, 3 nuts (one end fixed to the rod with 2 nuts) and
the only problem was that the threaded rod I had in stock was too thin, and
bent.
Worth noting that all spring compressors look much alike, and the fact that
they look similar doesn't necessarily mean they're all equally crap.
--
Austin Shackles.
www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right
is to be none the less free than you were before."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), from Meditations, VIII.16
