{"id":137,"date":"2010-10-15T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T15:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hooverandstrong.com\/blog\/archives\/135\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T20:33:27","slug":"how-to-bend-tubing-for-hoop-earrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/how-to-bend-tubing-for-hoop-earrings\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Bend Tubing For Hoop Earrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tubing can be bent into 1&#8243; to 2&#8243; diameter hoops by inserting wire through the tubing and wrapping it around a mandrel. The tubing wraps easier if it is annealed first (especially in the larger gauges). <!--more-->To prevent kinking, let the wire do the bending. The wire that is used for the arbor should be no more than 2\/3 the inside diameter. A lubricant can be applied to the wire to make it easier to remove.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>14L tubing with an inside diameter of .046&#8243;<br \/>\n.046&#8243; x .666 = .030&#8243; wire for insertion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo To Come<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tubing can be bent without crimping the walls by inserting wire, wax or sand before bending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tubing can be bent into 1&#8243; to 2&#8243; diameter hoops by inserting wire through the tubing and wrapping it around a mandrel. The tubing wraps easier if it is annealed first (especially in the larger gauges).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technical-articles.hooverandstrong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}