Victa catcher spring

It always happens when you can least afford for it to happen but the spring on my mower is not functioning as it should. These springs probably don't cost much but this weekend when I needed to cut the grass, I couldn't get one. The spring is very hard to manipulate by pliers alone, is there an easier way to manipulate it, it just needs a little more movement to sit where it should so that it will work properly.

Now I know that this belongs in the Renovation forum but for some reason I can't post there. I type up the message and then try to send but it keeps coming up with the message is too short and needs to be at least one character, I can't add smilies or change fonts or anything like I can here :C.

Looking into it Tiger........Reno seems to be working OK for me, will get back to you.
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