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Ian Stirling
 
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Default Need advice on bending thick wire

Wayne Lundberg wrote:
My son is making an RC Sail Car, now in limited production and growing. I'm
helping him tool for it and need some advice on forming the front steering
yoke made from a 7" piece of 3/16 drill rod or piano wire, bent in three
places. I'm using wire bending jig for now after heating to dark red (heat
treating after another par gets welded onto it). I'm about to make a forming


Have you considered doing it cold?

Maybe changing material, or altering the bend radius.