Originally Posted by
rockdoc
I am running a 126 Raleigh GS Comp with Dura Ace 9 speed. Great bike, my favorite ever, I'll get some pics up. Fine, no sweat, but the dropouts are at a slight angle due to spreading. I'm thinking of not cold setting the frame, but bending and aligning the dropouts to be parallel.
Good luck. One piece of advice---once you apply the pressure hard enough to bend the steel, it's easy to go too far. That's why I liked "RJ the Bike Guy's" threaded rod method of cold setting on his YouTube channel. It's much gentler than Sheldon Brown's 2x4 lumber lever method.
I find a frame alignment gauge to be a necessity for this stuff (probably $50 new?). And drop out alignment tools (which are outrageously expensive). I built my dropout alignment tools out of threaded rods, nuts, washers, and wingnuts, and they do the job (also an "RJ the Bike Guy" video shows how to make these).