12-18-2010, 07:04 AM
Um ... :oops: ... ah ... :oops: ...
... I tried bending the music wire with the fixture, but I found that ...
It is an Assembly Fixture, not a Bending Jig!
I, too, used a pair of round needle-nose pliers to bend the music wire. They are visible on the right of the fixture in this photo ...
![[Image: FittingtheHandrailontotheFixture.jpg]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/2010%20End%20Of%20Year%20Challenge/Fabricating%20and%20Adding%20the%20Details/FittingtheHandrailontotheFixture.jpg)
They are fairly small, but the end of the jaws have the right diameter ... after making the first 90° bend, I placed the wire in the fixture and grabbed the wire where it touched the top of the righth-hand nail, removed it from the fixture and made the bend. Then I put it back inthe fixture and ... it was bent exactly the right amount, exactly in the right place!
The rest was accomplished as I indicated earlier ...
And now I'm struggling with a bunch of tiny little pieces (that look tiny even under my Optivisor) as I attempt to fabricate a pair of those latches on the round access doors ... Grrrrrrrr!
... I tried bending the music wire with the fixture, but I found that ...
It is an Assembly Fixture, not a Bending Jig!
I, too, used a pair of round needle-nose pliers to bend the music wire. They are visible on the right of the fixture in this photo ...
They are fairly small, but the end of the jaws have the right diameter ... after making the first 90° bend, I placed the wire in the fixture and grabbed the wire where it touched the top of the righth-hand nail, removed it from the fixture and made the bend. Then I put it back inthe fixture and ... it was bent exactly the right amount, exactly in the right place!
The rest was accomplished as I indicated earlier ...
And now I'm struggling with a bunch of tiny little pieces (that look tiny even under my Optivisor) as I attempt to fabricate a pair of those latches on the round access doors ... Grrrrrrrr!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
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Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln