I tried bending the Columbus style front dropouts from Nova in a vice. Just a really little, very slight bend while clamped, and I felt a fracture. Very uncertain about what I felt, there was no way I was going to use it, so out of curiosity I went to bend it back and it quickly broke in two.
I ordered a new set of dropouts and angled the slots instead.
Perhaps it is a cast vs. forged thing... these were cast.
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