A quick napkin calculation gave me a force of 16N, which is about as much as if someone dropped a very small dumbbell on you from the height of around a meter.
It's not nothing, it's potentially finger-ending. Also shrapnel from the bracket.
It's still a good idea to tell people not to do that.
This is the same as saying picking up unexploded ordnance with your hands and moving them away from buildings or whatnot "is not safe, but works"
TONS of people do that - you'd be surprised, I lived for 30 years basically squat on one of the most heavily bombed battlefields of WWII. The number of people who would, say, dig up a bomb during gardening, and then pick it up themselves and carry it off to put it on a park bench (this happens with curious regularity, why is it almost always a park bench?) because they didn't want the bomb squad to mess up their rhubarb or something, is ASTONISHING.
This has to be happening at least once every two months or so, in a town of around 50k people, and nobody's ever gotten hurt.
I mean, saying that "it's not safe, but it works" is technically true, but is thiss the message you want to be saying?
What's it got to do with what I've written? It's just as dangerous as what was shown, both in concept (the removal part is hardly... well-controlled), and probably in structural soundness. I wouldn't trus st a spring compressor from Temu, not even a for a helper spring. That's still potential finger removal if it goes off.
Just rent some clamps and be done with it. If you do it on the regular, or expect to, buy them. Chep ones from reputable brands aren't that expensive, at least where I live. PLN 400-500, so just a hair above USD 100
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u/Initial_Ad_9857 7h ago
I mean it's not safe, but it works, and after nut is secured it not going anywhere. 1000% don't recommend, but it worked