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First thing is to repent my sins from before.  I use the torch to straighten out the side stand.  This part has a dull silver finish that looks a little like the spray can silver paint we used to call Polish Chrome in Detroit.  This is cadmium plating.  Cadmium is highly toxic.  Not so much to touch or even swallow but breathing the fumes is deadly.  Like the fumes when you heat it red hot with a torch.  Zinc from galvanizing is toxic too.  But it cleans out of your system so if you breath a lot of zinc fumes you get nauseous and sick but you're OK after a couple days.  Cadmium just builds up in your system while you feel fine until one day you fall over dead.  Stand back, have good ventilation and take your chances.
A ominous whiff of smoke... perhaps deadly cadmium fumes.  Exciting huh?  See why I love this stuff?  Anyway you can see the stand is a lot straighter now.  You can just make out the wino little pad somebody welded to the end.  I guess they parked in sand a lot.  Hey, it's why I could buy it for 5 bucks at the swap meet.  Maybe I'll cut it off one day.  This is why I run Sportsters-- I can keep five of em up and running and do engineering projects on them left and right all because the parts are almost free compared to big bike parts.  If somebody tells me that Sportsters are half a Harley I tell them I got five so that equals 2.5 big bikes and then I ask how many Harleys they have.
While it's still red hot and spewing deadly cadmium fumes I clamp it hard in the vise twice at 90 degree rotations to straighten it that last little bit.
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