Handy Spring Tool. In the Ford transmission-band assembly
there are three springs which it is difficult to assemble because of
the trouble in holding so many things at once. To eliminate this
trouble, the tool, shown
in Fig. 302, made from
flat bar stock, can be
constructed. The han-
dles, if they could be
sailed that, are pivoted
together and carry a kind
of flat jaw with three

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notches at one end.
When the two of these are squeezed together by means of the screw
and handle at the other end, the flat plates will hold the three springs
tightly enough so that all can be inserted in their proper positions







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at once by using but one hand. Tools of this kind, which save
a great deal of the workman's time and thus save both time and
money for the owner of the car, should, and in fact do, distinguish
the well-equipped repair shop and garage from the old-fashioned
kind which is in the business only for the money and not too par-
ticular how it is gotten.
