Speaking of Snap Rings -- Music Wire

Tim Wescott · 2011-11-17T19:28:40+00:00

Same reasons as for my annealing post: I'm trying to do a nicer job of mounting wheels on model airplanes.Given a piece of music wire that's already bent up (because you don't really know where the end is going to be until it's bent), how would you put a snap ring groove in a piece of hardened music wire? Would a groove made by a 1/32" cutoff disk in a Dremel tool have any chance of being good enough? Can you think of any simple fixturing that would make the process better?

Nov 17, 2011 20 Replies

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DoN. Nichols 14 years ago

I think that the official term is "Tinnerman fastener"

Here, one of the first that I found with a Google search, under the name "Rectangular Push-on", but also look at "Plastic Cap Push-ons" and "Round Push-ons":

The rectangular push-ons go down to smaller sizes, but the round ones don't have sharp corners waiting to nick you. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

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