I had already written-off the idea of bending my support bars a few degrees, but I decided to try a little experiment. I fabricated another rack support bar out of 0.090" aluminum, built the same size as the three in my rack. Then I tried bending it with my silly little bending brake, and it WORKED! So I ganged all three of the real supports with tape, and bent them all at once, just to make sure they were identical. It worked great. Reinstalling everything verified that the baseplate and the support legs will now sit flush on their respective mounting points. With the rack clamped in place, I drilled some initial #40 attach holes into the airplane structure and got the rack clecoed. I'd been wondering how stiff the rack would be, and it seems like it will work very well, but the lower plate had a slight bit of flex along the spanwise axis, so I fabricated a stiffener to take care of that. Primed and painted most of the remaining components of the forward baggage bay rack.