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Myles

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:31 am

Mine are totally screwed, but last night I picked up a pair that are allllmost straight with only a slight bend in them (98% straight kinda thing) :twisted:

and now I've been thinking, do you guys reckon it'd be possible to slightly bend them back to make them 100% straight? has anyone else been able to straighten theirs? do you reckon it'd be worth it?

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:36 am

easy to bend. use a pipe bender.

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:37 am

once you bend an arm, it is weak and will break eventually. Bending it back into shape will weaken it more.....

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Myles

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:38 am

Mmm thats what I was thinking, but if its only slightly bent...? its not a kink or anything its just a reallllly gradual curve... i dunno, maybe its supposed to be like that :roll:

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:42 am

Myles wrote:

Mmm thats what I was thinking, but if its only slightly bent...? its not a kink or anything its just a reallllly gradual curve... i dunno, maybe its supposed to be like that :roll:

Take a pic looking along the length of the arm.

VERY slight bends can easily and safely be removed from a cast arm.

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Myles

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:15 am

Direct links:

New control arms:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee68 ... 030146.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee68 ... 030147.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee68 ... 030149.jpg

As opposed to current:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee68 ... 030154.jpg

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:18 am

I recokon you'd get that. :wink:

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:20 am

Aussim. When are you free?

...And what kind of beer do you drink?

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:35 am

weekend.

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:51 am

Ridge wrote:

once you bend an arm, it is weak and will break eventually. Bending it back into shape will weaken it more.....

Sorry Mr fat, but I agree with this...

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 12:09 pm

steak_knife wrote:

Ridge wrote:

once you bend an arm, it is weak and will break eventually. Bending it back into shape will weaken it more.....

Sorry Mr fat, but I agree with this...

So do I mate.

But in this case its a very slight bend. The arm would have a certain amount of flex to begin with, and it looks like this arms has only just exceeded the point of now return. Certainly not enough to fracture the grain of the steel, and I doubt its enough to have made straightening them not worthwhile.

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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 12:15 pm

Fatzook wrote:

steak_knife wrote:

Ridge wrote:

once you bend an arm, it is weak and will break eventually. Bending it back into shape will weaken it more.....

Sorry Mr fat, but I agree with this...

Or you could just make cro-mo arm's.... :lol:

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