Well the ice trick worked, but I managed to destroy the fork in the process of learning how to do it. First of all you have to make sure the ice goes the entire length of the tube, or you get a wrinkle in the tube where the ice ends Second, mark the location of the bend so that both tubes end up with the dropouts in the same location, which didn't happen this time   Third, have some way of measuring the amount of bend, so that the tubes match when looking from the side.
 
New fork due in this Thursday.
 
Opus

Oops. I had all kinds of troubles bending forks, until I bought a $1 ebay fork. It bent perfectly.

That's for SPOONS, Foo....  what I need is one for disc brake rotors...  

New fork is almost done, just a little tweaking to get as much rake in as possible. Only one tiny problem, the roller closest to the steer tube melted the ice inside the fork leg a small amount and dented the tube of the leg under the cantilever bosses.Then I have to drill a hole to mount the sidepull caliper.
 
Opus

Quote from Opus the Poet on Sep 26^th, 2007, 10:10pm:

 
It's hard to do a perfect job with that style of bender. As long as a dent isn't deep enough to structurally weaken the fork, you should be good to go.

I took my first ride with the new fork today. No idea how far or fast, the computer still isn't operational yet. One screwup I made was to cut the steer tube to the same length as the old fork. The new headset has 10mm more stack height than the one on the bike now
 
Opus