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Old 03-28-12 | 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Maxturbo
When you do your aligning there, make sure that you have the wheel in place (or a dummy hub or a faux axle) tightened down securely to pull the stays / drop-outs into their "as ridden" position.

On my ST's dropout / DR hanger bracket area, I found it to be out a bunch. I used a machinist straight edge and then a couple of large (oppose pulling) Crescent wrenches to pull it around, not just in the vertical plane, but it needed a horizontal tweaking too! It's tricky sighting down a strait edge, but it can be done. It takes enough hands and some comparative (to the stays and frame) measuring n' eyeballing to get r' done.
I have a lot of my Dad's Sterrett tools. I should be able to cobble something together.
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