How to Straighten A Wire Using A Drill ! 

Nice trick but what about metal fatigue? Wouldn't the torsional stress cause it to break much easier?

I've used twisted bailing wire for as long as I remember. I'm 68 and I first used if hanging mufflers on old cars as a kid. Great material to work with. And as long as it's not over twisted, metal fatigue isn't an issue. Strong and long lasting "bail-out"..

I like roll the wire back and forth between two perfectly flat pieces of wood, marble or tile.

I found it's best to pull back tight on the drill when doing this

I like it :) The material is likely coat hanger wire which is called black muffle. It is a soft and very malleable material and its pretty tough. Its made to be twisted, stretched and bent all you want to a point, of course. It is not heat treatable, I mean a guy can hit it with a torch or toss it in a draw oven for a while at any temp you like but it wont make any difference and it will not anneal this already pre-annealed wire. It looks as though it is stretched very close to its limits so I imagine the idea is to make straight rods/wires/cables that arent meant to be bent too much more after this. This is a pretty cool way of doing it.

Neat trick, but in my experience it weakens the wire considibrally

I prefer a "good" used salvaged, bent, twisted, kinky wire to "bad", brittle, weak micro-cracked internal overstressed one. Try scratching it - pulling your fingernails (or teeth ;-) over it and you will feel it is cracked, even if not visible.

Not bad... but the wire gets birttle due to that, doent it? The conected wires look quite awesome... nice idea!!!

Well done video. Many people saying this will not work and seem to have good explanations, but I do this pretty frequently to join insulated wires into cables by twisting them together, solid and stranded. So far, not a problem, just keep the pitch of the twist reasonable. Have not thought to use it to straighten a wire.

Pretty smart technique

im intrested to see what hapens when they are over drilled. and how resistance differ from a normal copper wire and a drilled wire...

This is common practice but with 2 wires for making sculpture armatures

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For jobs where wire strength is not important this is very cool.

triple wire looks so cool, it might even be a decoration element.

i will be using that in the future ,thanks

Thank you

Neat idea, but it will definitely work-harden the wire, and you end up with a very ripply surface. Much simpler is just to stretch the wire slightly, without twisting.

great tip on how to turn junk into useless trash.

That's a handy tip, thanks.

I don't know how much this weakens the metal, but that's allot of turns, I like to put one end in a vise and grip the other end with large pliers and jerk it, until its perfectly straight.

This is actually a method used in ancient wire and jewelry making.

I used this and it worked so well

You wouldn't do this if you know about Young's modulus. It will break soon because this whole twisting process imitates bending and straightening wire many times.

Works better if you spin it while in tension (ie. pull back on the drill).

I'll also use square jewlery wire as small drill bits for drilling holes in plastic or even soft wood. It breaks often but ::ascii shrug::

No thanks. It's wire anymore. It's twisted wire. If you're just making some crafty artsy fartsy thing, you may not care, but if you need to maintain the strength of the wire, even if you anneal it, you have fatigued, cracked, and stressed it, as well as multiplying the stretching done further from the center by twisting it. Even if you anneal i and you haven't accidentally drawn it beyond it's malleability, You have now completely redistributed all stress applied by tension. You have also greatly distorted the surface shape. the proper way to straighten wire is to run it through 3 rollers set to bend it so slightly from a straight condition, it will simply spring back to straight. Actually, simply tension the wire and plucking it to vibrate will do much of the same thing! You have discovered how people twist wire though!

Would make good rebar for model concrete dioramas.

This would work great for art projects but not for engineering ones.

..And you get a very straight piece of wire that is almost useless from fatigue.. It's certainly a cool trick, maybe as a trick to impress your friends, but i can't imagine a use for a wire twisted that much.

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Everyome in my school in germany lern how to that, but not all kids can do it at the end of the school XD

Nice hardstyle tho

I think you can use the same technique but instead passing the wire through a small orifice as you pull. This was, the wire won't get twisted and weak.

But the wire would be to brittle to use after that. You take all the plastic deformation potential out of it. Every twist puts the grains under more tensile stress, causes cracks to spread, etc. you are forcing creep on every void and imperfection in the metal. This is how metal fatigue happens.

think mike pence would like this?

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when i tried to do this, it just kept breaking off the end of the wire i was trying to straighten..

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I don't think the people talking about annealing really understand what it's doing and how it won't help that much.

what if a person doesnt have a vise or a drill? dont you think using a hammer would be much easy? and a think thats only good for a foot length wire.what about a long one? how much time it will take you to make it straight?

nice job.

What if you twist in reverse after?

Nice Trick!

Will this straighten my sexuality?

проволоке после этого пиздец. и не поможет никакой отжиг. Чтобы уплотнить то что растрескалось надо будет делать горячую прокатку... Кстати, знаю способ гораздо проще, и проволока после этого как новая. Даже два способа. 1. если проволока длинная - протянуть проволоку несколько раз через изгибающий канал змейкой, да хоть между гвоздями. 2. если проволока короткая - прокатать отрезок проволоки между досками или между металлическими пластинами

Muy interesante !

good video keep it up

Thanks JohnnyQ90. Now I'm going to read all the comments that show just how stupid these genius's think your trick is. Today you have to write out hundreds of disclaimers just so people don't get to try to come in and "whip it out". (sorry so crude).

But will it blend?

I did this in school

Can't you just pull on the wire until it stretches a bit?

but it'll make the wire becoming spiral shape😅

Tried it. All it did was break the wire.

I guess it turns a wire into a rod. I will not be as flexible as before tho

Does this work with nicrom wire?

It's a shame this trick damages the structural integrity of the wire.

That's fine if it to be used straight, but now it is extremely brittle

Bad Johnny! No, no, no. Sit in the corner. Completely ruined it. Now put your pocket in the drill and straighten it and tell me what went wrong.

make a biger metal rope

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Pretend it's your you know what and just yank it

what you do is twist the thread, not straighten it.

Are you sure you don't weaken it!?

Why would I wanna do that?

My wire broke.

It workhadens the material too much, its way better to just clamp it in the vise and give it a quick pull with a pair of pliers

I can do that with my hands

WHY? WHY? WHY?

Проволока разве хрупкой не становится после такой операции?

mmm not exactly smooth

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if you chuck a screwgun like that you are slow and inefficient and obviously a hack lmao no where near a handy man or a smart individual

What the fuck did I just watch? If you’re turning material into trash why not just shitcan it in the first place?

Don't do this. Pull the wire instead.

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Avoiding all the twist and stress put into the wire, you can straighten wire by simply stretching it.

This guy making monster vape coils or what

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makes it brittle through work hardening, and shortens the wire. Plus it can only be done with very malleable metals.

wouldn't that pretty much change it's resistance?

would it still be straight if you reversed it after that

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simple but tricky trick shown in a easiest way thanks sir

Look like vaping coils stuff

shoulda fired up the nitro drill :D

We get it, you vape! Jk vape coil builders swear by this method.

try that with Nitinol then heat it up

Cool!

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this wire is also about 2 turns away from fracturing. what was your planned use of this wire after you were done with it?