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Sharpie to mark the levers, vice, torch from Home Depot, pliers, Dremel, and 80 grit sand paper. Easy. About an hour.
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Gonna try to duplicate this weekend. [email protected] is asking $210 for their sorties.
Do you have any tips, suggestions, or lessons learned to share?
Do you have any tips, suggestions, or lessons learned to share?
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Mark the levers where you want the curl with a sharpie, use wood blocks in the vice so that you don’t mar the lever, just twist the ball off once it’s hot enough, use a block of wood and pliers to curl/shape the end, and don’t worry too much about imperfections - easy to sand out with 80 grit and a file. It’s really easy to do. It’ll go well.
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Hello! Warm up hard? What to heat?
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Did mine this weekend. I would say around 2 minutes of constant heat/flame to lever.
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Thank you!
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No problem. And like Jack stated before, heat up the ball near the break-off point and remove it first. I just used a combination wrench to bend the lever (closed end)...like the old "double-wrench" trick.
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Ensure the pointy tip of the blue flame is touching the metal. 3-5 minutes. Heat the lever around your sharpie mark. Then use a block of wood and grab the ball with pliers and bend the lever to 90 degrees - a slow rolling bend. Once you’re happy with your bend/shape, heat where the ball meets the lever 3-5, and then twist it off using pliers. Now on to the file, grinder, and finally 80 grit sand paper.
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