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Old 09-28-2008, 10:09 PM
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Well, I got the old one straightened out enough to put it back in. I did improvise a shadetree fix that some might be interested in.

The problem was that after straightening the tube, it was out of round, making it like putting a square peg in a round hole. To fix that, I took a big cresent wrench and tightened it to the diameter of a good section of tube. I then moved it to the messed up section, and rotated it around the tube several dozen times, tightening the wrench slightly as I went along. That reshaped the tube to make it round again. I used some emery cloth to smooth everything up, put some grease on it, and pounded it in.
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