Brief Description: F23-03 and F23-04, opening angle
Had a second go trying to open the angle of the parts F23-03 and F23-04. I don't have a new vice yet but I am still able to use the old one to clamp just 1 leg of the angles. After doing some research on the Sonex yahoo groups, this, in combination with a crowbar, is all I need (for now). I clamped the angle with one leg in the vice and squeezed the crowbar between the angle and the vice, then it just requires a little force pushing the crow bar up until the desired angle is reached, worked perfectly. After this procedure the legs of the angle are not perfectly straigt anymore but slightly concave. This is normal and acceptable since the angle can and will not bend on the thickest part of the material, but you can get rid of this almost completely by removing material from the apex of the angle on the outside. It's purely a cosmetic finishing touch but never the less, this is what I did. Again I have thank the people on the Sonex yahoo groups for sharing this little trick.
