RE: Best way to cold bend landing gear
It's a pair of vice grips for leverage over the corner of a 2 x 4 when I do it. For landing gears that just need a tweak like yours though, I just grab both wheels and bend them on the plane. Haven't broken one yet. When bending any kind of metal though you do have to be sure not to concentrate the bending force on just one spot. Spread the bend out over a small length of the wire in order to avoid a brittle spot.