21-12-2021, 08:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-12-2021, 08:10 PM by Steve Jones.)
That, sir, is bent!!
A very successful trials competitor well known to many of us had a bent axle half after a trial some years ago. He's a farmer and therefore has the services of a retained agrigultural engineering contractor with some very big kit and an inventive mind. The axle half was loaded in his VERY large lathe, the tool post wound up hard against the axle half and set off along it on a very slow speed. Two passes straightened the thing out. The lathe survived but given its size, it would. However, his axle was bent about mid way, yours appears to be towards the outer end so, maybe, that wouldn't work.
Steve
A very successful trials competitor well known to many of us had a bent axle half after a trial some years ago. He's a farmer and therefore has the services of a retained agrigultural engineering contractor with some very big kit and an inventive mind. The axle half was loaded in his VERY large lathe, the tool post wound up hard against the axle half and set off along it on a very slow speed. Two passes straightened the thing out. The lathe survived but given its size, it would. However, his axle was bent about mid way, yours appears to be towards the outer end so, maybe, that wouldn't work.
Steve