Steve P's March 19th "paper dolls" post is a good idea. -- Trace the VO bracket on some strong paper. Cut it out. (But allow the double wings of the metal original to become one piece for this step.) Lay it over the fender so that it is centered and the paper template edges evenly overlap the fender edges and tape it down lightly. With a marker or pencil, mark/shade the two edges where they bend over the fender. Take it back off the fender and put it on the flat VO piece. (Or, vice versa. Then you can see the lines where they cross the fingers of the wings [!?!]) If the paper is on top, fold the paper back squarely at the marks and mark the metal wings so that they will be just like the paper template was marked. Remove the paper template. You want to bend the bracket at the greatest width so that it is long enough to wrap over the fender. It can be a little too long but it can't be too short!
Do you have a small table vise or even a couple of carpenter's clamps and some 6" pieces of 2" x 4" wood? (See my Mar19 post) Clamp the bracket so that just one of the edges that you marked protrudes from the vice or wood pieces. Your mark should just disappear under the wood or clamp. You can tap the wings with a hammer, mallet or chunk of wood so that they start to bend at a line just after the marks. The L part of the bracket sticks up and you need to bend the wings down. A crescent wrench adjusted until it is almost closed or vise-grip pliers can help to start the bending. Stop at 90 degrees -- You'll need to add some curvature to the bracket before doing your final bending. David (It's late and I need an editor) Lipsky On Friday, March 27, 2020 at 9:25:15 PM UTC-7, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > Hmmm...well, if that is as you say, I’ll try this tomorrow! With a video > first to make sure I’m not breaking crap, you know... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ac74d44d-b91e-446e-b027-6ca6986416ca%40googlegroups.com.
