Originally Posted by
Iowegian
For vintage bikes I just use a large cresent wrench and my eyeball to get things aligned.....
Pretty much what I do as well on all of my bikes. Works great if you do it properly, and yes, I have aligned quite a few bikes with a 13" crescent wrench and then checked them later with an old DAG-1, and they have seldom required any additional tweaking.
Originally Posted by
noglider
......I'm the only home mechanic I know who owns dropout straightening tools, which might indicate I've gone a bit too far.......
I just recently made up two homemade sets of the square-headed allen bolt versions like those that were recently posted here (one 130mm and one 135mm), and I think I will eventually use an old derailleur mount bolt to fabricate a homemade derailleur hanger alignment tool as well. And no, you have not really gone too far, you just meticulous....
