Originally Posted by
Kontact
I'm sure you are going to make some blanket statement that doesn't fit the facts: Oh, wait - you already did.
Heating a brake lever up to 300 - 200 less than heat treat temp for aluminum - and then straightening in the plane of the lever movement has about zero to do with a crashed lever, which usually get bent in impact at one point in a different plane.
And, even if the lever failed, you have two of them.
You are good at knowing the facts you have made up in your head...
Yes that is different from most crashed levers...however some have just been bent in the process of doing something like this. People do that for different reasons some like this.