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Get bent!

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 27, 2025, 8:58 pm

My new shop press should be showing up this week; my iron V-blocks got here yesterday. I rooted around in my scrap bin for a couple pieces of flat aluminum to use as "pads" between the steel of the fork tubes, and the iron/steel of the V-blocks and press plunger.

Here's the setup I measure them on:

and

You can actually see the bend pretty well with your eye, so I don't really need a dial indicator to get the run-out "close enough", but since I already had the wheel-truing tools and stand, I figured I'd do it right ...

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

Re: Get bent!

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 27, 2025, 9:04 pm, in reply to "Get bent!"

Good luck straightening them out.

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Re: Get bent!

Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 27, 2025, 9:36 pm, in reply to "Get bent!"

I recall that Ian Sabey (Notts Ian) wrote a piece about straightening fork tubes many years ago. I have in mind having to press twice as far as the correction required.

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Re: Get bent!

Posted by dommie90 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=dommie90' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 29, 2025, 12:54 pm, in reply to "Re: Get bent!"

when I worked at REG ALLAN in the 70s he used to repair fork stanchions in his press for 10 quid a pair and send them all over the UK for free
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