Originally Posted by
RustyJames
Much good feedback so thank you all.
I’m not a purist in the vaguest sense but if something doesn’t work it annoys me. I can get the wheel into the fork but it takes some coaxing which goes against (some) of my mechanical sympathies. In theory, I could get things very close but since
gugie is just down the road, that is probably the smart choice.
My qualm about you doing it yourself is you might do some bending that needs to be un-done later. In the case of one tip forward of the other, you can twist them into parallel with the H-tools, but that might be the wrong way to fix it if the blade needs to be bent forward at the crown or at the rake. Then your H-tool bending will now be wrong and needed to be twisted back. Too much back and forth weakens the metal.
On the other hand, dropouts are intentionally made of very malleable, soft metal, so the risk is not severe. Feel free to twist them, if you have H-tools (Campy's name for them) or another similar tool of a different brand.
Or, if you can stand to wait, let Gugie do it. I know, that's what you just said. Just makin' conversation...