Door Hinge Spring

[brtnstrns]

Is there anyway to get the spring into the door hinge without having to take the door off? It seems like way to small of a deal to take time to take the entire door off just so i can get the spring in between the hinge....any ideas?

 

[brtnstrns]

i tried that except i did it with guitar strings...they held but the problem was that the spring only compressed on one side even though we had like 4 or 5 strings on each end, they all moved to one side and compressed only one side so the spring still couldnt fit. Any other ideas?

 

[19sixtynine]

most tool stores sell the tool to compress the spring. It's pretty simple really, two arms hinged on one end, with a nut and bolt in the center to compress. good luck

 

[66candy]

This might help..

I had the same problem with the wires moving to one side of the spring. I took a file and made small notch at the end and the front of the spring. The wire can't move now because it stays in the notch...et voila!

Erwin, The Netherlands