The old derailler was an Acera, PBF gave me an old Alivio to replace it until they could get warrantee information from ShimaNo which might take a while. In the meantime they took a bunch of digital pictures of the part to document the destruction. Nobody in the shop had ever seen a derailler destroyed that way, and everybody in the shop had a look at it.
I have a derailler hanger/ dropout adjusting tool that I use to straighten bent parts like that out, but I have never tried to adjust out that big a bend. It looks like a Crescent wrench, but when it's not being used to turn really big nuts and bolts it's a dropout and derailler hanger adjusting tool. And this isn't the first time that hanger needed adjusting, I had a wreck back a few years ago that dinged the derailler and bent the hanger and it had to be adjusted. This might be more than the part can handle.
So, if the hanger doesn't break off the dropout then the bike will live, if it does break off there is still a chance that someone up at RANS could remember where the backup file is for the pattern to run the laser cutter. That was a big selling point way back then when laser cutting was a GeeWiz aerospace process. I might need to bum a ride to Hays KS to get the part installed
In the mean time, I have another bike to build.
Opus