How to bend
Thick Wire
Making Hardware From Wire
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right so here's what we're going to make
today this is just a hook and and I you
can actually you know use them together
to glass a gate or something like that
now the the steel or the wire that I use
I actually get it free if you go to
polling places after an election they'll
have you know out in the yard will be
just hundreds of political signs and the
wire that holds them up is great for
making hardware out of so you know as
long as it's free in your area to do
that I don't you might get arrested but
you can get all the way that you want
alright let's get started and get some
of these made this is the bender that we
made in a previous video and now let's
see if we can make some hardware with it
I'm just going to clamp it in the vise
here and we've got a different side this
is quarter inch 5/16 3/8 and 1/2 okay so
I think the first thing we'll make is a
screen door latch like this one right
here and we just kind of capture our
wire right up against that of the pin
come around and you want to overshoot
flip it over straighten that up a little
bit
now we're take the bolt cutters I got
some little lower bolt cutters and I'm
going to take those and I'm going to
knit this end off right here
ooh watch your eyes when you do it and
just take a hammer that's got our first
little bend then okay so now we want to
come over and we need to form the up
Bend so we'll just hold that there and
you make this at this part you know as
long or short as you want it to be this
is almost a 90-degree right there I got
a little past 90 actually I'm not going
to fix that a little bit all right now
we'll form the top part of the hook come
around then I like to put a little bit
of a flip-out right down here at the
bottom so it helps you catch the hook so
just do that right there and then I'll
nip this part off right here and there
you have it now you say I'll take this
on a grinder and see how I've smoothed
that over because this is really pretty
sharp so I would grind this and then hit
with a wire wheel and make that smooth
okay
let's got that done now you can also
just make hooks and let's try let's get
these 5/16 pins drop them in there so if
we just want to put a hook on the end or
an eye I guess it'd be called on the end
of this we just do something like this
again you overshoot a little bit come
back whoops I can actually pull that a
little too much there we go straighten
that back out and this one I think I can
just hammer it and then that gives us a
nice loop so you could actually you know
you could nip this off and hammer this
in and use that as a catch for your
screen durdle door loop a lot of times I
just use a staple
you know staple like that like you get
the firm store and you just state that
on this the end to hold it you just nail
it into it to the gatepost and then use
another one on the other end to capture
it and if you can't find these you could
just make them just take this set your
wire down in there you know I would take
the bolt cutters let's see and hold it
at an angle like that and let me just
nip that off so that's kind of sharp and
then
just bend it and then cut this other
side off at a sharp angle again I didn't
get that one in a very sharp angle you
can also you know grind that to a
sharper point and then you just hammer
that in alright so that's got that one
then we've also got this I done here
the other thing let's try making a s
hook you know for joining it together
some rope or for a little bit of chain
so we'll just set that right there okay
I didn't use enough there we go Lesley
all right and then we'll cut this off
right here and you've got an S up
Cosette gets pair of pliers and close
that up a little bit there goes your ass
up right there so then you could use
that to attach a little piece of rope or
or piece of chain alright I hope that
gives you some ideas on how to use this
if you didn't save the video on how to
make this bender go back and watch that
one and thank you for watching
