Hi Jim, Could you pet a small hydrolic jack inside and put 2 x 4s on the straight with the jack on them and slowly push the opposite side out?
Paul On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:15 AM, jwsmobile <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got a PDP8/A chassis which has a card cage that has been tweaked off > in the front just a hair. Enough that you can't get the cards in by an > interference amount of clearance. > > Anyone have any idea on how they handled this? I'm thinking of using some > blocking and then a 36 or 48" pipe clamp to apply diagonal persuasion to > get it back in true. > > The rear of the box is not impacted. > > In the body shop trade this is called "diamond" and usually gets your car > totaled if your frame has that damage term applied to the chassis. > > I don't see any other damage other than this, no chip damage or cracking > to the back plane, which is of course brittle. The rear dimension of the > chassis is good, and I can't see what caused this. Could have been a drop, > or could have been under too many layers of crap and was tweaked. > > Other clever ways to apply very gentle but forceful pressure to true up > the cabinet is appreciated. Also how much to go past square to account for > the "spring" back of the steel once the force is removed would be nice too. > > Thanks > Jim > >
