Bending the rod takes quite an effort. Do you put it in a vice, heat it up, or something else? You can't do it with just a couple pairs of pliers. If a vice is used, I'll have to take it to my workshop (not for plane building), I don't have the necessary tools to do it at my house(where I build my planes). Thanks for the tip. I haven't built too many planes, I didn't know all the wheel rods are like that.