BTGBullseye

YOU did. If I may quote:

 

Try using needle-nose pliers next time... And solder them shut with lead-free solder. (or TiG weld them shut)

I can see how you might misinterpret that post, but only if you have never spoken to someone in real life, and had not taken the post in-context. (context is everything when determining meaning in a conversation or story) Quit trying to violate the "don't be a dick" rule using intentional misinterpretation.

The method I am using requires less money, less equipment, forms rounder, more even rings, doesn't compromise the metal by heating it (this is armour, after all, and your method would make the metal brittle) and is considerably easier to do in my environment (I'm doing this at my computer desk, while watching early Dragon Ball, I can't use that kind of equipment here). I am wrapping them around a dowel rod, and bending them by putting my thumb against the wire and rotating the rod by the locking pliers. My thumb both forces the wire to bend and guides it so that it doesn't end up running over itself or being misshapen. This method is cheap, fast, efficient and effective, the only downsides are it takes a considerable amount of force to bend steel, and all that force is being put into a very small space on my thumb. Making the wire hot would not make my issue, which is the pain and numbness caused by all that pressure on my thumb for so long, any better. In fact, if would be much worse. And don't suggest gloves. I NEED the precision granted by my bare hands to shape the coils right, leather gloves would slip and move, making it harder to manipulate the wire. This is a stupid idea.

The pliers would allow a better grip on the metal, and wouldn't require you to apply your thumb at all.

As for the "making it brittle" and "compromising it by heating it" part, it would have to be heated to near melting point and then rapidly cooled for it to become brittle instead of just hardened. (even hardened steel will bend like crazy, but it's a lot harder to bend) Unless you plan on welding and then dunking in water while it's still bright red, you can't use that as an excuse. (soldering won't even come close to the temperatures needed to do that)

I would never have suggested gloves for that kind of work, only tools.

Finally, why are you getting so pissed at suggestions that are made by a welder, and an armorer? (a friend of mine that does blacksmithing, and has tested various types and manufacturing methods of chainmail/scalemail against everything from bullets to knives and arrows)

And I'm getting pretty damned good at this. I've made about 3,000 links, still have a pair of hundred-plus-link coils to cut, and now I'm out of wire.

Grats. What gauge of wire are you using, and what ductility? Also, are you coating the finished rings with anything to prevent rust?

Hi Hai, I'm high, and I've got a late date with fate...

I can't back it up because of what it is that I know. Don't call people liars unless you know for a fact, and can prove that they are lying. (otherwise I can sit here and call you a liar all the time, and that's not fun for you OR me)

Granted, now they believe that they live to work, and coincidentally when there is no work, they all die.

I wish the tech support center I just started working for would never again get a call from either pissed off impatient people, or people that think that a "wireless modem" means they don't have to use any cords for anything at all.

Enjoy the panic when it comes as I sit in my basement playing games on my computer.

If God bitch-slapped you?

Never. The company is privately owned, and prefers to have a human talk to customers instead of a machine. (and they are just now upgrading to Vista and softphones)

Why do parents seem to think that their children have no life besides working for money, and working for the parents?

Phones. (answered phones all day, going to be doing it again Sunday)

Robin Hood/Sheriff

Why do you want a library? We should definitely have a party.

Farts Land Atop Medium Eggs.

GNORT

Delete all your posts, then combine them into one giant one, and post it in the Misc. section as a new thread.

How to go get groceries without leaving the house or ordering online?

Remember when the USA was founded by people that believed in God and creation?

Accurate. (despite the lack of capitalization or punctuation)

You play a game where you run around the inside of the human brain, and freeze parts of it to see what it does. You win by successfully freezing everything without killing the brain.

Avadon: The Black Fortress

Banned for using a verbose ban reason.

The year half life 4 is released.

 

I do not know this number, but I pick it.

I already posted the number...

Now on to better things... #0.

No emotions... It's closer to what I currently have, but I can always simulate emotional responses.

Welding + automotive mechanics, or carpentry + electrical?

2135 - Everyone looks back on the previous century, and thinks "why am I looking back at the last 100 years when I could be playing games?", subsequently everyone goes and plays games.

forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=389979

Who ever said to weld the pliers to the damn wire? Use pliers to form the wire into the rings, they won't stick unless you're using completely molten metal, and actively heating the pliers to match. (I have lots of experience with welding, and hot/molten metal + pliers)

I actually like the CIA, especially since I know more about them than someone without clearance should. (and they know I know)

Or that the 10% were the only ones caught... Remember, only about 15% of non-violent criminals are caught, this is no different of a situation.

...and again, and again, and again...

Nothing in particular.

Only 80 proof...

Now that's where it's at!