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Old 08-09-2010 | 09:47 AM
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Default Wire Bending 101

I am not speaking to simple angle bends here, although, if you have a technique that works well, go ahead and post if you would like to.

Here is a technique that I need to learn. This isn't used in many aircraft today, so a lot of this has become antiquated for most aircraft.

I have plans for plans building a J-Bipe. I need to bend some wire for the cabanes and landing gear.

Why not just purchase a prebent aluminum landing gear??? I want to build it as designed.

I'll upload photos of the plans to show the types of bends and loops I need to make.

Dubro has a nice wire bending tool. The problem I see is that the wires I'm needing to bend are in american measurements, and the sizes the dubro tools say are compatable are all in metric sizes.

Thoughts?