Cutting the coils is not the way to do it. I replace the springs in mine with lighter springs. You can fine tune how you want the springs by changing the rates, and usually any hardware store carries different ones for you to change them out. I commonly use springs out of ball point pens, and modify them to match the factory springs. Piece of cake.
Trial and error, go slow, test test test... your done.
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