Wire Bending Machine

Will these work:

I was in a local hobby shop about a year ago, and saw in the tools display case a modern day 'Wireformer'... looked just like the original, only black oxide finished. Don't recall the mfg's name, sorry.

I bet if you searched around in hobby type web sites, you'd find something.

Erik

Mcmaster-Carr (mcmaster.com) has a few small wire benders under $100......

Grummy

--They're dead easy to make; all you need is a bunch of dowel pins, a plate you can clamp in a vise, with two pins sticking up out of it (one long one in the middle and a shorter one off to one side maybe an inch) and a piece of steel long enough to act as a handle that does the work. Drill handle to slide over the upright, then drill another hole for a pin to hang down from it. This second pin does the work. --I've made a couple of these and I use 'em to bend stuff from 1/8" to 1/4" and for bending tubing with formers that slip over the plate's tall pin. They work great and they're reeeeally cheap.

I really tried to follow what you wrote. You lost me about the over size (pipe?) that sits on one pin with a second one (what, pipe/rod? hanging down.

Any pictures for the imagination challenged? ___________________________ Keep the whole world singing. . . . DanG

Hi Mark,

Here are two that I found a while back:

Yet another option for small stuff are "Jewelers pliers". They have round jaws and are made for bending wires and such.

I made something similar for a job I'm doing right now. I put a nice bearing on the pin that contacts the rod I'm bending. Unfortunately, the bearing couldn't handle the pressure and broke. :(

--I'll take some photos and post 'em to my page; stay tuned?