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 <jws at jwsss.com> 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