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I recently purchased a Rigid Arm Victor M with a slightly squished elbow. My first call was to friend and Rigid Arm expert, Ken Brekke. He said he designed some special tools to assist in the straightening of bent elbows. I sent my elbow and it was very quickly repaired and returned. Ken's repair was excellent and the cost was very reasonable. I asked if I could get his name out to the collecting community to provide this specialized repair service and he agreed. So send Ken ( Phono-Phan ) a PM.

Jerry Blais

I am glad you're happy with how it turned out. I have repaired a number of these elbows. Yours wasn't too bad to start with. You can search "rigid elbow repair" for other examples I have done.