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Restoration of an old Campagnolo H tool

Once in a while one has to do something senseless. Something crazy, indulge a thing, spend money on basically overpriced stuff. So I recently bought a used and retro Campagnolo H tool pair, also known as 'dropout alignment tool' You always need them in a pair, and together they look like a very broad H, hence the name. One uses these to align the fork (front or rear) dropouts, so they are exactly parallel and lined up straight. For the front fork this is important in cases where the steer is pulling towards one end by itself. Sometimes this can be misaligned dropouts, or a totally bent fork (this tool can't solve that). At the rear is also prevents a wobbly ride or the wheel scraping against the frame. One can use such a professional alignment tool, or just improvise one with some parts of threaded bar ends and some nuts one can buy relatively cheap at hardware stores. But I chose differently (totally irrational, why did I do this again?). Campagnolo is