Wire bending

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17 years ago

Mon, Nov 13, 2006 1:17 PM

Hi,

Does anyone know of an online table of minimum bend radiuses for eg silver steel rod ? I need to put some tightish bends in some 2mm ss and just wondered how tight I should go ?

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17 years ago

Mon, Nov 13, 2006 5:08 PM

Heating the wire to bright red with a propane torch will let you bend it very tightly indeed - almost 90deg if you don't mind the distortion. It works well with thicker silver steel to make crank-ended boring bars.

HTH Guy

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17 years ago

Wed, Nov 15, 2006 3:55 PM

Useful info, thanks for that. I finally decided that 4 bends in a bit of 2mm rod don't really need anything more complicated than a vice + molies - and so it proved :-)

Cheers,