Fork Spring Compressor
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Vtwinguy
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Fork Spring Compressor
When you live alone and the neighbors aren't around sometimes you have to use a little ingenuity to solve some problems. Welded up a quick spring compressor that goes around my vise. Worked great and only took about an hour to draw it up and fabricate. Just thought I would share the idea.
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Lucasind
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Re: Fork Spring Compressor
.... Good idea !!! It took me a few minutes to see that the two lower tabs of your tool, hook under the vice jaws,,,, Looks like it should compress the fork spring quite well ! tony 
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Re: Fork Spring Compressor
Lacking welding skills, and equipment, I used a Gear Puller to push the top caps down into the fork tubes, so I could put the C-clips in place -- I gripped it on the triple-tree. It may be overkill, but it worked, in the end. Cheers!
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