straighten fork tube

[crazy steve]

...You will also need to be as lucky as you are careful to succeed at this.....

I'll second that. I tried to straighten a bent tube with my 20T HF press (just for a set of 'mock-up' forks; there was NO intention of actually using them) and only had partial success. It's very difficult to get everything 'just so' for this to work, and be careful also; that tube will want to rotate, and may come flying out of there.

Like Fred said; if there's a 'kink' in it, don't bother, but a slight gradual bend you may be able to fix.

'78E original owner