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This whole bending business is getting tiresome...help needed.

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lyndon
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Well, Ive realized that I dont need to bend my FKS brakes all they way out straight and then make a new bend. However, Ive already bend one out a fair bit, and they other has snapped, and i have a new one. How, here is the question. For the new one, can I just pull it out a bit? They are going onto Ar6's, a 85 waist. As for the one i have bent out, can I re-bend it back along the same bend, like the original bend there was?
Jun 29 2007 4:42PM
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lyndon
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here are the threee brakes. Im getting the snapped one welded back together..
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K, here is where im going to make the bend back again(on both sides). Will it snap if i re-bend it there again?
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Jun 29 2007 4:49PM
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lyndon
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bump
Jun 29 2007 6:32PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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more than likely.
Jun 29 2007 7:54PM
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lyndon
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? That it will snap?
Jun 29 2007 8:05PM
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GatoGordo
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heating it up will reduce the risk
Jun 29 2007 8:18PM
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lyndon
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hmm, my shop says that heating them will make the metal brittle
Jun 29 2007 8:47PM
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Tha_Grouch
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^ dude f that. it is way more malleable when heated. Just wear some oven mitts or something.

use a butane/propane torch obviously. And go slow.
Jun 29 2007 9:15PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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your shop is right
Jun 30 2007 12:14AM
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WeK
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If my shop doesn't bend my breaks,which they prolly won't, I'm just gonna sell them. This hassle with bending FKS breaks is rediculous.
Jun 30 2007 12:33AM
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ZavierV
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how did you bend those? it's made out of memory steel which is soo hard to bend.
Jun 30 2007 12:47AM
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freezed
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it really isn't that hard. there's a guy on TGR that'll do it for you for 10 bucks plus shipping.
Jun 30 2007 12:55AM
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lyndon
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I'm absolutely huge, muscular wise that it. And in the pants. And where ever else being huge is benificial.
Jun 30 2007 1:03AM
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bigwhite.steeze
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pfff claimer....




Jun 30 2007 1:11AM
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freeski1620
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WARM it with a heat gun.
and when you're ding it, mount it to a shitty ski.
it helps like 100000x
you guys are really getting silly about this.
Jun 30 2007 1:57AM
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bobs
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i have UNBENDED fks brakes on a 86, you don't really need to bend them. 
Jun 30 2007 2:03PM
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WeK
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could you explain how you got this work
Jun 30 2007 2:07PM
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freeski1620
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you slide it over the ski and pull it out a little. mine fit perfect on my pc's.
Jun 30 2007 2:17PM
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WeK
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slide over the entire binding, or just take out the brake first and then put them back in?

i tried doing this with my scratch wrs but I they don't really wanna go over them
Jun 30 2007 2:22PM
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bobs
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you mount the binding without messing with the brakes.  then once they're mounted the brakes can just be pulled out a tad.  when up they'll fit perfect, when down they'll flare out a lil but work perfectly.

and i lied,  somehow i hit 86 i meant 84, they're fks wrs
Jul 1 2007 12:15AM
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ski_cartel
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dont heat it up to the point of red hot-id-ness. Warm it up with a heat gun, then use a vice to make the bend, go slow and take your time. Worse comes to worse theres always that on the tgr forums that is willing to bend them for you for like 10 or 12 bucks
Jul 1 2007 2:18AM
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ski_cartel
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^^^ nevermind im a idiot its 10, someone above me allready said that
Jul 1 2007 2:19AM
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lyndon
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YEAH!!!! After snapping a set, then hunting another down, I have been successful! I have finally goteen a hold the the screws, but i still need a plastic semi-circle for the one heel.
Jul 8 2007 12:59PM
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