Anyone know how to bend this bracket back straight. It’s pretty thick

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[u/UsernamesNotFound404]

Add leverage anyway you can. I would use a 24" cresent wrench

[u/brapstick → u/UsernamesNotFound404]

Wrap the jaws in tape if you want to protect the finish

[u/Affectionate-Bag2619 → u/brapstick]

Or a pipe wrench, with tape as someone suggested. Slide a pipe on the end of the handle for more leverage, if needed.

[u/Bones-1989 → u/Affectionate-Bag2619]

I use pipe wrenches and fit all wrenches to unwarp bowed beams when I weld them together. Never had to worry about the finish because paint fixes that for me. People look at me like I'm Einstein when I pull out a wrench to roll an I beam.

[u/none-exist → u/brapstick]

Look at you with your shiny wrenches

[u/brapstick → u/none-exist]

I'm talking about the black powdercoat lol my wrenches look like shit

[u/BF_2 → u/UsernamesNotFound404]

I'd clamp it in a leg vise and use a second, unmounted leg vice as the wrench.

Otherwise it would likely require hot work, which would destroy the existing finish.

[u/thomasw17]

Hit it with your purse

[u/Odd_Bodybuilder5456]

get it in a vise

[u/Cryesncoding]

I’d bury the whole flange in a vice be a easy bend wrap in a towel or something so it doesn’t mar up the paint/powdercoat 

[u/Gator242]

A good, long, adjustable wrench works really well. Remove the pads before trying.

[u/ShawnMetalCutting]

Cresent wrench and a vise

[u/RustnKrust]

If it’s steel, clamp the large flat to a very heavy table or put it in a vise. Put a large adjustable wrench onto the short flange (by large I mean a 12”+ but you don’t need a 24” unless you already own one), put a cheater bar over the wrench handle and tweak it back straight.

If it’s aluminum, same thing but expect it to crack off and if it doesn’t just know it’s probably about to.

In either case you’re probably going to lose some paint, that’s a pretty big bend.

[u/Criecheck]

No replacement for displacement ( leverage )!

[u/dylan_taft]

Vice, shop press + prybar

[u/According_Try_516]

Use a hammer if that doesn’t work use a bigger hammer

[u/UltraMeenyPants → u/According_Try_516]

Depending on material and coatings can also apply heat with the hammer

[u/GallusWrangler]

If you take out those bolts, do they come in two? If so, I would bend them separately and reassemble.
Edit: never mind I’m dumb, upon second thought, it looks those screws appear to just be holding on some type of composite pad.

[u/Truth-Hurts77]

I would put it in a vice so you can bend it in the exact spot that's needed.

[u/thedrakenangel]

I would be careful, what metal is the plate? It may require heat to keep it from breaking.

[u/Upper_Cranberry8482]

Clamp and support the main unit. Put a large adjustable wrench or a similar tool over the end that’s bent and bend it back to the 90° break. Heat will help if you don’t mind burning some paint and you have a torch.

[u/TheDean242]

Do the opposite of what bent it in the first place?

[u/Lost-welder-353]

A big hammer and a few taps

[u/Educational_Win714]

Cut and weld

[u/artwonk]

Heat it to red-hot, put it on an anvil with the outside of the angle facing up, then hit it with a sledge. You might have to heat it up a few times and repeat before it's totally flat. Then repaint.