On 02/23/2017 12:46 PM, dpb wrote:
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I manufactured a "tool" yesterday evening; here in a little while SWMBO
will be out of the house the bulk of the afternoon and I'll give that a
shot...if it doesn't help, that would be a next step to try, granted.

That worked _quite_ nicely, thank you very much!!!!

For the record the "tool" was very simple, started with a 3/8" hex nut
and bored the center out to 7/16" (very close to the ID of the seat
receiver). Insert the spring in the seat, press the assembly into the
nut just to the depth of the flange, thus taking the "flare" out.

The spring protudes enough to find the hole and turns out a 20d nail
head was just the right diameter and the shank long-enough to be a good
handle to push the seat/spring out of the nut and into the receptacle
and the constraint was sufficient to get the edges started that just
could not get to happen alone.

10-minute job with the tool; about that to make the tool and had wasted
nearly an hour yesterday morning fooling around without...

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