Wire straightener

[John Delacour]

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At 18:19 05/10/01 -0400, Farrell wrote:

>"I also straighten all wire before installing and never use it straight from
>the coil."
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>How do you do that?


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the two rows of rollers on the vertical bank and the horizontal bank can be 
brought closer together and each roller is independently adjustable.

These straighteners are used throughout the wire industry, but you won't 
find them in the hardware store and mine was expensive even 15 years 
ago.  If I needed another, I'd make it with ball bearings.  You'd need to 
have a machine shop grind grooves in the outer ring.  I've known some 
old-timers use just a block of wood with staggered nails, but you'd need to 
make a few for different wire gauges and it's tricky getting them 
right.  For production work that's not practical but for the occasional 
re-string, why not?

JD



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