[GKSki]

I have seen the Campy tool used on my steel frames in the past. Forgive me, but how is the procedure different, if indeed it is at all, with a carbon frame? Is it just the replaceable alloy derailleur hanger that is being "bent"? How do you avoid damaging the carbon stays?

 

[GKSki]

The same way you avoid damaging steel stays.

So the leverage from the tool does not impact anything further than the derailleur hanger itself? I know that having to bend it into alignment is a very delicate operation. Just left it to the LBS when my steel frames were aligned and probably would do the same with my carbon frame.

 

[GKSki]

Thanks for the education everyone. I think my confusion is because I go back to the steel frames with forged dropouts that are brazed into the stays.

It took quite a tug on the Campy tool to realign that type of dropout.