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Originally Posted by sokoloff
Never dealt with ZDMAK's spring compressor, but I have bought several other things from him and he is one of my preferred sellers.
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Don't know about their's in particular, but I bought an identical-looking JTC one over summer from (IIRC) El Paso Tools (sp?) to do w123 from LCA bushings & lower balls.
Worked fine, but the threaded shaft was a tad short -- I needed to compress 8.5 coils to remove the springs, but then couldn't completely release tension because the tool wouldn't extend far enough. It was very close though, I leaned on it and got enough compression to remove the tool. Nice touch on mine was that it was designed such that the bottom wouldn't come shooting off if the threads were completely unthreaded from the bottom part. Don't know if the stops would stand up to full tension though, but it was an unexpected suprise for me (I saw the way things were going and didn't let it unthread all the way before I got the tool out). FYI, on my JTC, I had to grind the holes in the body a few mm larger because the top of the tool wouldn't fit through it otherwise.
Hope that helps.