Originally Posted by
SortaGrey
SO.. a random cold setting is so much more accurate for parallel? C'mon.....
I've run several larger into steels.. the tires track same. No problem.
No, you bend the dropouts parallel again as a separate operation to spreading the frame, and you don't cold-set randomly, you follow the instructions on Sheldon's page to measure how much you've spread the frame. Tyre tracking is not the issue with non-parallel dropouts anyway, it's the fact that the axle gets stressed in bending when you do up the axle nuts.