#video #toread on bending #wire for retainers #mechanisms
on 02024-10-02#video #toread on #wire #flexures about an airpot #mechanisms
on 02024-10-02#video #toread #Disney-Research on kinetic #wire character design #flexures #mechanisms
on 02024-10-02The Corralón de Marco in San Martín at the edge of Capital Federal sells baling wire for construction, “hierro dulce para la construcción 6 mm, marca Acindar”, for AR$3700, presumably per kilogram. #materials #pricing #wire
on 02024-09-14#video #toread on #3D-printing a #wire bending machine
on 02024-09-03#video on making a #wire bender with a nut and a bolt. The thumbnail shows slotting the bolt, stepping the nut, and welding a handle to it, but in the video he cuts a step in the bolt and then a slot in the bolt (with an angle grinder). Then he does MIG-weld a handle onto the nut. Horrific elevator music. Then he cuts a step in the nut. This seems like a terrible design: it relies on the thread to locate the two bending parts, which are a non-adjustable distance apart, and then restricts bends to 90° or less. #Plonk to "Relietron".
on 02024-09-03#video #toread on a Japanese #wire bending tool
on 02024-09-03#video #toread on #manufacturing a #wire bender
on 02024-09-03#video #toread on DIY mini #wire bender
on 02024-09-03#video on bending #wire to make fishing lures. Shitty elevator music. Dremel and angle grinder applied to a screwdriver to make it a sort of inverse screwdriver with a slot in the rounded end for the wire. Hacksaw blade on aluminum tubing tightly fitting over the screwdriver shaft, cut off at the end of the cutoff shaft. More slots cut into the end of an Allen wrench with the angle grinder. Diagonal cutters and round-nose pliers to put a loop in the wire. The slot in the end of the screwdriver grasp the wire loop to rotate the wire; the slots in the Allen wrench convert that rotational movement into tightly twisting the wire around itself. This would be a significant upgrade to my wire-bending capabilities. Round-nose pliers bend the wire end into half a loop; serrated-jaw needlenose pliers crush it into a tight hook and then put sharp bends in.
on 02024-09-03#video on bending and soldering #wire and thin brass tubing into literal wire frames. Mostly #soldering. Recommends cross-lock tweezers or leather gloves to hold hot metal, especially brass tubing. Stretches his copper wire to straighten it, first tying one end around a clamp attached to his workbench and winding the other around his pliers. Sands the (uninsulated, 1mm) wire before tinning it and then soldering butt joints. He laser-prints a template on paper to work from. He uses electronics flush-cutters to get flat ends on his copper wires. To avoid a blob or spike on each joint, he drags the iron away from the joint. For a thicker frame he uses brass tubing (2mm?), cut with a Dremel. To get a perfect circle you can wind the tubing around a jar or something, which gives springback, or you can use a small roll bender. To align the ends of the circle around the gap, he cuts off some welding rod with the Dremel and sticks it into the ends of the tube, so that the solder he later applies won’t have to bridge an offset. He solders the brass tubing with the same 30 or 40 watt soldering iron and the same rosin-core electronics solder, then files the solder smooth with a file. To get sharp bends in the tubing he V-notches it with the Dremel. A flap sanding wheel on the Dremel also helps to deburr the solder. Shitty elevator music.
on 02024-09-03#video on bending #wire with a wire bending jig for #manufacturing fishing lures #toread
on 02024-09-03#video #toread on #wire bending artist
on 02024-06-09#video on 18AWG round copper #wire bending for making beautiful shapes, swirls and scrolls and stuff. Recommends sharpieing the round-nose pliers to get repeatable bend radii. “16-gauge, the loops tend to oval.” She likes to straighten her wire by pinching it between a clothespin and a piece of plywood really hard and pulling it through with pliers; alternatively she suggests clamping one end in a vise, the other end in some serrated-jaw pliers, and pulling until the wire stretches. Or, for shorter pieces, rolling it between a steel block and I guess a sheet of MDF. She recommends for finished (not practice) pieces to finish the end of the wire a little bit to be nice and smooth, using either a fine file or 400-grit sandpaper taped onto a tongue depressor, even after using a flush cutter to cut the end off flat. To make a loop she grasps the wire at the desired radius of round-nose plier, by the end of the wire (“not sticking out”), and bends it about 90° at a time before going back to get another grip, while using the other hand to pull the wire tight against the plier jaw. To make a continued spiral (“scroll” I guess) she switches to flat-nose pliers to grasp the whole loop between the jaws, with the plane of the loop parallel to the plier jaw surfaces. Demonstrates hammering the wire with a shiny and smooth hammer on a shiny and smooth steel block (because any texture will be transferred to the wire).
on 02024-06-09#video playlist #toread on bent #wire #mechanisms “Wire Crafts”
on 02024-06-09#video on bent #wire #cardboard #automata #mechanisms. Shows making crankshafts from galvanized steel wire with pliers, a frame bent around a plastic box using cut bicycle spokes to form loops. Shows how to loop a thinner wire around the crankshaft several turns to form a triangle to prevent the connecting rod from sliding along the shaft. Suggest using kitchen tongs (?), a square pipe, and a sort of clamp for wire bending as well. He mentions copper, “M.S.”, zinc, and solder wire. Demonstrates scribing a plastic box with a sort of improvised height gauge on a normal Formica table, and using a hot wire to puncture it. By godbolerr@gmail.com, Ravindra Godbole.
on 02024-06-09#video on bent #wire #mechanisms. He recommends using a plastic-coated clothes hanger, measuring out bend points in advance with a ruler and permanent marker, using wide-point needlenose pliers, bending entirely from one end, always putting the pliers on the same side of the bend (he’s using the side that has already-bent stuff on it), etc. The half-hour video is entirely about making a crankshaft for driving wire automata.
on 02024-06-09