I FINALLY got around to finishing up the Straightener! I got it all welded together anfd painted over this past weekend and assembled it today.
Getting some bright red paint. This is rattlecan Rustoleum Bright Red over their grey primer.

I had to finish up a couple of other items to get this done. One was drilling and tapping the tensioning knob for a set screw to lock it to the tensioning rod.

I made the tensioning rod out of a piece of 3/8-16 all thread. Here you can see it installed in the roller block. I used a cheap drill bit depth stop collar to trap the rod so the block will move up and down as the knob is turned.


Looks pretty good with everything assembled.


Continued in next post.