


I learnt a trick from the NGW club by using washers or similar packing and shoving them into the gaps between the coils when the spring is at it maximum extension.
I use 0.3mm (.012") Aluminium tags. I just cut them up into small strips and push 3 or 4 between each coil of the spring.
Then just lift the stand up to its park position and the spring is held in its stretched out length and just falls off.



Just do the reverse to refit the spring.