Picked up one of the nicest Gems I have seen. Looks don't always say much about the internals, and this one had no piston seal attached and a broken spring. Turned up a nice fitting polyurethane piston seal and bought spring from Protek. Had absolutely no chance of fitting the full size spring using all my strength and ended up taking off 3 coils to compress it enough to get the thread to start. Is there some method without special tools to get these springs in ?

Baz