Guide Bar Straightener

[Philbert]

Guide Bar Straightener

Another ‘NLA’ item to keep an eye out for at garage / estate sales.

Hydraulic presses are used for some harvester bars.

Solid guide bars are said to be easier to straighten than laminated bars, where spot welds can shear, and laminations bend differently (like multiple sheets of paper, when folded together).


Philbert

 

[EFSM]

Guide Bar Straightener

Another ‘NLA’ item to keep an eye out for at garage / estate sales.

Hydraulic presses are used for some harvester bars.

Solid guide bars are said to be easier to straighten than laminated bars, where spot welds can shear, and laminations bend differently (like multiple sheets of paper, when folded together).

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Philbert

Awesome tool!
A laminated bar can be straightened, but it has lost its resistance to bending.