If you want to move the valve up and down to loosen things up and make sure it isn't going to stick, use a piece of hardwood or even the end of a wooden handled hammer. Put the wooden end on the keeper and you can whack the end of it with another hammer as lightly and as quickly as you want. You can always start thumping it a bit harder to compress the spring even more. I'm not real hot on the idea of beating one piece of hardened metal with another. That's asking for trouble the way my luck goes.
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