Accuratly bending threaded rod---SOLVED!

Have you ever tried to bend allthread? It prefers to break quite often. (at least when caressed with a hammer in a vise) That's why I suggested heating. Maybe you can find a better grade of allthread than I've used in the past.

Bell shaped grinding disc?

You bet. G'luck!

-- The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. -- Charlotte-Catherine

How about using something like a 2" long threaded nuts to screw on the ends thus protecting them and providing a good item to push upon as needed. Then simply un-thread them and the threads are clean.

Mart> Thanks for all the ideas guys! For me, getting ideas out of my box helps

How about using something like a 2" long threaded nuts to screw on the ends thus protecting them and providing a good item to push upon as needed. Then simply un-thread them and the threads are clean.

Martin

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Funny, we were just talking about that today. Now the thought is to put a gentle, single radiused bend, and we will need two different lengths of rod, one 4" and one 3".

Hey Tom - I reckon some pictures of some of these custom machines and jigs of yours would be of great interest to many of us here, not to steal your ideas, just to see how things are done. Do you have any photos anywhere on the web or ones you are able to share?

Thanks

Here's one he uses for behind the ears.

-- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!

That's a happy looking cow.

Impressive sales: "The company has already sold 30,000 cow washes in its native Sweden"

Here's one he uses for behind the ears.

-- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!

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I dated her sister, that's how I got the contract for product!

That's not something _I'd_ ever have copped to.

P.S: Would you Live guys get a real news reader, please? When we try to quote you, your info goes "poof", disappearing like a sig file.

-- "Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?" --John Adams

You mean something like Thunderbird that doesn't allow you to edit all the settings forcing you to delete and reinstall accounts?

It sounds like a setting in your newsreader causing that.

Would it perhaps be better and easier to use solid non-threaded rod, cut to length, form the bends and then thread just the ends in an automated setup to thread both ends in one operation?

That's not something _I'd_ ever have copped to.

P.S: Would you Live guys get a real news reader, please? When we try to quote you, your info goes "poof", disappearing like a sig file.

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I've been trying out "Windows Live" on this new laptop and you're right, I hate it! Thunderbird?

Would it perhaps be better and easier to use solid non-threaded rod, cut to length, form the bends and then thread just the ends in an automated setup to thread both ends in one operation?

***************************** That's still on the table. We'll make some prototypes in a few different ways and see if it makes a difference in the finished product and what's best all around. Thanks for the ideas!

While not ideal (I actually -loved- OE), it's the best I've checked out so far. It imported all my accounts from OE.

-- "Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?" --John Adams

I'd definitely think you would get a better product with standard steel rod, with (preferably) a rolled thread on each end.

Do the ends HAVE to be threaded? Would those "speed nuts" made from spring steel sheet work? Or those push on retainers as used to retain wheels on prams or some appliance parts.

While not ideal (I actually -loved- OE), it's the best I've checked out so far. It imported all my accounts from OE.

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I had it on a pc at work, I didn't think it was very intuitive...now, where's that setting?

Do the ends HAVE to be threaded? Would those "speed nuts" made from spring steel sheet work? Or those push on retainers as used to retain wheels on prams or some appliance parts.

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Now, THAT'S out of the box thinking! The product is a 4' long handle with two heavy-duty brushes at one end, it's used for cleaning big broilers and ovens. The end user will need to be able to change the brushes.

It works OK for me, but then I use Netscape 4.80. Maybe it your: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186

Works OK, here. You must have something mis-configured in Agent....