There are dedicated tools that can grab the shockshafts without marking them at all... or you can do like I do, and use a large pair of snips (yep.. snips). You take the snips and you hold the shaft VERY tightly where the threads meet the shaft. Since you are using snips and not pliers, they only come in contact with teh shaft at a tiny tiny spot. It leaves you room to thread on the end... and nothign will touch the polished side of the shaft.
The downside is, it can slightly dull your snips, and you have to grip it hella hard to keep it from spinning around.
Another good tip, is to pre-thead your shock ends with a screw with same thread pitch as your shock shafts... that way they will go on slightly easier.
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threading eyelets on shock shafts??
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..When you say snips do you mean vice grips?.I have a pair of needle nose vice grips that i was thinking of using with a rag as a barrier between the grips and the shaft of the shock.I like your idea of gripping shaft close to the threads
.I was also thinking that i could use one of those small clamps with rubber grips that carpenters use for holding wood pieces together while the glue dries ect,although the shafts are so smooth that they would probably slip in the rubber grips..
