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DaveJ27
#1 Posted : 02 April 2013 11:53:55

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How do you bend these with out breaking/snapping them? As you can guess from the question I couldn't.... Well one survived, mostly because I left it alone after snapping the first. I'm either stronger than I thought or they are very brittle, as with hardly any force (I thought) or bend it snapped. Looks like they're going to have to stay off the build, unless I can find some others somewhere...
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#2 Posted : 02 April 2013 18:22:01

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BigGrin Hi, have you tried annealing the wire or heating it up 1st
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#3 Posted : 02 April 2013 18:54:35

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#4 Posted : 02 April 2013 18:57:58

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A type of cannon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconet_%28cannon%29
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#5 Posted : 02 April 2013 19:33:15

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they have an elongated hand rest which is used to swivel them on their posts, some of the ones supplied with the model have to be bent, and as pr said, it is usual to heat them first. k.
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#6 Posted : 02 April 2013 21:30:44

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Doh!!! do I feel stupid, heating them first never occurred to me, obviously never had my brain switched on. Thanks for the advice will try on the one I have left, any way life is a learning process and I've learned - relearned something today... Thanks
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