Central stand wanted

Tippie said:
A bloke who did frame straightening in Brisbane got the job to straighten a 3CL crash frame, despite the quote saying it should be replaced. It came back bent three times after his attempts, with him refusing to try more as his straightening jig was pretty well fucked after repairing it after it bent with each failed attempt. Big hassle with the insurance company.
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My own "re-aligned" 3C frame returned with a distorted head stem, both bearing counterbores were quite oval! Took a lot of heat and persuasion to bring them back to an acceptable shape. Frame cracked a few years later, twice actually, and was then heavily gusseted. Steering bearings still don't last as long as they should and the bike still runs 2-track, but only by a couple of mm. ;) It has mastered all the abuse I have inflicted over the past 30-odd years.

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Tippie said:
A bloke who did frame straightening in Brisbane got the job to straighten a 3CL crash frame, despite the quote saying it should be replaced. It came back bent three times after his attempts, with him refusing to try more as his straightening jig was pretty well fucked after repairing it after it bent with each failed attempt. Big hassle with the insurance company.
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Very much doubt that would be Dave Kellett who we use, there is no way his frame jigs will ever bend, have seen them dozens of times
They are very heavy and solid built, have used him dozens of times to do Laverda frames including the two piece 120 Jota we got sent from Brooke Henry in WA, he did not want anything to do with that job

Back in those days there were a couple of other people in Brisbane that called themselves frame experts, more like spurts than experts
 
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