Excellent solution for my problem. When she grabbed the wire on the wall, I thought, "perfect," that's the same wire I'm using. You're solution is easy and cheap! Thanks!!!

Fascinating, thanks! I had a thought while watching this that could make the process quicker. Get a length of pvc pipe, plug one end with a wooden dowel, drill your hole in the middle of the dowel and clamp the pipe in your vice. Then you don't have to worry about holding the back end of the wire with your other hand, as it will be contained in the pipe. You could even drill several different sized holes and have one "go to" tool for all wire gauges.

Great and inventive technique, well narrated and described in detail. Thank you. I am enlightened. 🙂

Thanks for this! I need to hang some lights four feet down from the peak beam and this worked well. I used a short 2x4 with a 3/32 hole. The wire was too long to control by hand, so I used three shop vac tubes to restrict the far end whipping.

The 'files & rasps' bucket in the background... someone's last futile attempt at organising that workshop... 🤣 Super tip - I'm going to try it out today! Thank you!

Great tip, thanks for posting the video.

Nice tutorial, very effective technique. Thank you m

I think this is the best Tip I've ever seen. Pow! So Simple. Angels be with you God Bless you all.

As a model railroader, found this to be both amazing and helpful. Model Railroad Hobbyist online magazine just featured this video!

Very useful tip. Many thanks 😉👍🏻👏🏼

Wonderful! I make wire trees and have arthritis in my thumbs. It’s really hard for me to get my wire straight enough to fit into my jig. Thank you!❤️

Thank you! This is exactly what I needed. Great technique!.

awesome tutorial👍 thanks for sharing knowledge

Nice tutorial, thank you!

Sohappy to have found this! I'm working with copper wire and want to make some pyramids that need straight thicker wires. This should work!

An elegant solution, thank-you!

Thanks to both of you for a e entertaining and useful video. God BLESS you ...

Excellent, thanks!

Brilliant!! Thank you!!

Amazing! Thanks for that.

Thank you very much 👍😊

Superb. Thanks.

great video

Love u guys great job

Great tip thanks

Wow - what a great idea!

Thank you 🙏

Thanks for this. It helped save time and tedium. I knew the basic principle of doing this but wasn't sure how to go about it. I was working with 4 foot lengths so holding the one end opposite the drill was difficult. I started using a gloved hand and stretching out but found it awkward so I used a 1/2 piece of conduit and clamped it down to the opposite side (non-pro tip :). Worked like a charm. It would also work well for shorter applications, I believe. t should also work fine hand held as well. I also found that it worked better with the drill at a higher speed, at least for me it did.

Want to use vertical wire between two tensioned horizontal wires instead of bamboo canes to support tomato plants. Have coiled wire. Came to KZfaq for inspiration. Went away happy. Thank you.

man that looks like magic!

Good stuff!

Very nice 👍

MRH, Posted a link to your Video, Nice work

Top trick 👍

Thanks for this. I have some much larger wire to bend into various size (using a “Chinese” bender from Harbor Freight) for hanging things in my shop. Hopefully this works on that wire.

The method I use is to tighten one end in the vice, then use a vice grip and hammer on the other end. It pulls all the bends out by slightly stretching it. Fast and accurate.

Hello again ... :( This did not work for me, perhaps because of the length. But what one comment said and I'd thought he would be wrong but it actually worked well for me. I got one end of my 1.5mm X2020mm into my workbench vice and had to bend and pinch the other end to stop it turning in the drill. Then observed the wire twist and slowly spun it against that twist direction it worked fast and very well as it took only a few rotation to get it straight. But thank you again for you sharing something that mush work in certain situations.

Thanks, that's a handy tip.😁

You are really smart, take this compliment. This is coming from a veteran engineer!

Thanks

Love your videos! I just found your channel a few days ago. I want to make better shadow puppets. Do you have any recommendations of places to learn about shadow puppetry?

Nice demonstration, I can see your skill! When you coiled the wire was that to make a spring?

Damn dude this was such a great fucking idea thank you

Cool! You got any ideas on how to straighten out wire mesh when you unroll it? Kev

To go a bit quicker, you could push the wire through the backside of the wood block and then chuck the bit of wire sticking out on the front side. Instead of chucking the wire and pushing the entire wire through the block.

thanks for the video. please can you specify the brand and model of the drill?, when i try mine and the wire comes loose from the drill

So far this sounds/looks amazing I wonder how I'll go with 220cm length...My problem is more the room I think but will come back for feedback. Thanx a bunch :)

Great method. I just bought some Full Hard Steel wire in 22 gauge. I hope this will work with that thinner thickness as well. Question: What type pliers were you using towards the end of video bending the end portion of the wire. Will thinner gauges work with this method? Thanks Alex and Olmsted. Great job. Phil.

DO you have any solution for thicker wires like 9 Gauge

does the 45 angle help harden the wire?

Would this work for .051 bucktail wire I received in a coil?

And how exactly do you tighten the wire into your drill?? That would be pretty helpful also.

Does this twist the wire at all? Because I saw someone else do something similar and it worked by twisting the wire, but their method clamped the other end in their vise, it didn't put it through a hole.

This is very smart, like a drawplate! I have to unkink 50ft of 22 Gauge Half Round Copper wire. What a headache!

hi, any ideas if the wire is above 3 feet in length...????

OOOH this is so clever. I'm about to make a 4G antenna and now it won't look wonky and home made.

WHAT ABOUT FLAT 5mm wide ?

I hope this works for covered wire

I want to buy wire that is straight and hard. 9 gauge. Not sure why this is so hard to find.

I have come back to bug you guys again with another wire question (if I may). I'll say please. (to encourage an answer)... I am trying to bend small gauge solid (full hard) steel wire in a U shape. The gauge wires I work with are (20AWG, 22AWG and 24AWG), which are roughly .032, .025 and .020 in inches, respectively. I am bending one end of the small wire 90 degrees and at the opposite end of the wire (about 2 inches away.....sometimes slighter longer), I also make a 90 degree bend. Bending the 90 degree angles is not too difficult, however getting the bends to be on the same plain (example: if you were to lay the bent wire on a level surface it would lay completely flat in a U shape), that is the difficult part. Bending that second 90 degree angle to match the first bend so they point exactly in the same direction has been a real challenge. If you know of a method that I could use make these bends, that would be great....and I promise to say please again on future videos. Philip

LMAO how do you find anything on that bench.. how do you even work on it..?

Just tried this - did not work whatsoever for me with 14-gauge Cu wire. I got a very loose spiral, less straight than when I started.

Have you tried the method this guy uses? And how does it compare if so? See about 8 seconds in: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obaXqM6lppybZKs.html&ab_channel=DanieldeBruin

I fix old electric trains, your bench looks like my bench.

The easiest way to make any wire perfectly straight is so very simple. Tie one end of your wire to something solid, a handrail, or anything else that is strong then chuck the other end in a drill, pull the wire tight with the drill and pull the trigger pulling tightly, your wire will spin/twist into a perfectly straight piece, don't over spin, the more you spin the stiffer and more brittle the wire will become. You can make soft copper wire extremely rigid. Just try this, there is no better way!

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Let's not clean up the work bench for the video

I did this once with my right hand while holding the wire with the teeth. Not gonna lie, I had a better result than you.

An awful lot of unnecessary work! Put one end of the wire in a vise and the other in your drill, then spin SLOWLY.