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Here's a couple things that I found useful when bending mine:
-When taking off the baseplate, you can avoid bending the front tab. Just put a small flathead screwdriver under each end of the plate, then lightly tap it off with a hammer. Make sure you tap in the right direction.
-Bend one brake arm at a time to make sure you get the right horizontal angle for when it goes back on the ski.
-When you go to put the base plate back on, get all the tabs lined up, push it together, and slide it into place by putting an allen wrench (or something similar) into one of the rear screw holes and pulling it back. If it doesn't go into place fairly easily, something is out of line.
-To put the spring back in at the end, get one side of it in most of the way first. Then take a small flat screwdriver, put it in the other side, and tap that side in. Once you get it evened out, take a bigger one and use that in the center to get the whole thing back.
It'll be slow and confusing on the first one, but just take your time and be gentle. Bend slow, measure 5 times, and think before you do something and it'll all work out. Once you have things figured out it should only take around 20 minutes to do the second heel.
