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Old 02-13-19, 08:58 AM
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Bending back a saddle frame straight would not be easy as I found out just trying to flex the too wide apart rails on one of my Brooks Pros to try and install it on a seatpost clamp the rails are just a little bit over a rail's diameter too wide apart and I'm still having a difficult time with a C clamp to squeeze them together, let alone trying to get them sqeezed together enough to "cold set them to a narrower distance from each other. Dang thing just springs right back to where the factory errantly spaced the rails. No matter how much pressure I can exert with the C clamp to the point it was flying off the saddle because the clamp could not get any good grip on the rails anymore.
Only real way to fix such would be to remove the leather cover and clamp the frame on to a bench vise so you can get "heavy" tools on it to bend it back straight. Some heat should help......

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