crooked angle iron on trailer

garv123

Hi, seems to be the best place to post this, plenty people on here seem to be doing bits of metal work/welding

I've an old trailer, which im restoring to some form of usable condition for moving bits around the yard, etc. I got a ramp welded up and it has eyelets for the latches.

1 piece of the angle iron at the back is crooked (pic attached) which wont let me line up the eyelets to drill the holes for the latches.



whats my best way of straightening this up without cutting it off and welding it again?
Can I use a blow torch at the bottom to heat up the bottom and pull it back out, using a scrap bit of metal cut to the right length to square it up with the other side?


Thanks

_Brian

If you had a length of tube that slips over it I would just bend it out a bit.
It’s really close and should easily give enough to accommodate what you want.

893bet

Tap of the sledge

green daries

893bet wrote: »

Tap of the sledge

Ya either of the above ideas or tie chassis to something solid and pull the angle iron with a rachet strap you need to tie / ancor the trailer first.

garv123

Thanks lads, never even taught as something as simple as a bit of leverage. Had nothing to hand that would suit so machined out a few plastic brackets and used a bit of profile. Way over engineered but I know nothing about steel and it worked a treat..
The sledge wasn't working because the impact was getting absorbed too easil with a the flex.

Thanks again