Re: I'm new to this, a couple of questions if I may

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From: tony_hebb <tony_hebb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:41:28 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jeff" <janderson@...> wrote:
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> Don't know about foolproof, but I struggled mightily with pigtail bearings until I read the suggestion about putting the straight forming wire onto a frame and make sure its at high tension. Until then, my jig wire would bend as much as my pigtail wire and it was all a mess. I use a jeweler's jigsaw now for the straight wire, tension it is much as the jigsaw frame will stand, and bend pigtails with relatively little trouble. The straight wire doesn't move at all.
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> Still takes adjusting and tweaking after, but MUCH less.
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> Jeff Anderson
> Livonia, MI
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> Many thanks Jeff I had been thinking that tensioning the mandrel might help but hadn't got round the how bit. Tony
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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "tony_hebb" <tony_hebb@> wrote:
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> > Can anyone point me to an article(or tell me) a foolproof way to make pigtail bearings before I run out of wire?
> <SNIP>
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