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Title: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: Mike Alimov on October 14, 2023, 07:09:32 AM
Looks like a large hex nut with two stubby posts sticking out. Let me know if you have one you can part with.
Title: Re: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: 944_Jim on October 14, 2023, 02:48:16 PM
On eBay right now:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/312760179648
Title: Re: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: Dan McEntee on October 14, 2023, 02:53:05 PM
Quote from: 944_Jim on October 14, 2023, 02:48:16 PM
On eBay right now:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/312760179648

       Hi Jim!

  That's a tubing bender. It is also a very useful tool. Is Higley stuff no longer available? I haven't tried to purchase anything out of their line lately. They maybe went direct like a lot of other manufacturers after Tower Hobbies bankruptcy.
    Type at you later,
  Dan McEntee
Title: Re: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: 944_Jim on October 14, 2023, 05:30:19 PM
Hi Mr. Dan, you are correct. Mea culpa.
Doh! HB~>
Title: Re: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: Paul Wescott on October 14, 2023, 07:22:49 PM
What about this one for $10-$11?  Steel and softer wire up to 1/8”…

https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-wire-bending-jig/t10163

Title: Re: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: Dan McEntee on October 14, 2023, 10:57:19 PM
Quote from: Paul Wescott on October 14, 2023, 07:22:49 PM
What about this one for $10-$11?  Steel and softer wire up to 1/8”…

https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-wire-bending-jig

      Paul, your link didn't work so I'll take a stab at it;

       https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-wire-bending-jig/t10163

     I have a few on hand like this one. These have been around a long time in various forms. A home made bender like a Higley can be made from some motorcycle chain pins salvaged from some one shortening a 1/2" (428) chain. Just drive the pins all the way out, drill appropriate holes in a hunk of steel and insert pins. The Higley units are hard to beat, though, if a person isn't the type that likes to make things or does not have the tools.  Jim Lee offers a nice one that is lever actuated that is pretty nice also.
   Type at you later,
     Dan McEntee
Title: Re: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: Paul Wescott on October 15, 2023, 01:43:19 PM
Quote from: Dan McEntee on October 14, 2023, 10:57:19 PM
      Paul, your link didn't work so I'll take a stab at it;

       https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-wire-bending-jig/t10163

      Jim Lee offers a nice one that is lever actuated that is pretty nice also.

Dan - Thank you for providing a working link.  I usually wind up with a link that is several hundred characters, and when I try to trim off the excess: win some, lose some.

Jim Lee has so much good stuff.  I don’t know why his catalog does not link to his photos.  I will post a pic of his wire bender below, if I don’t goof it up.

Title: Re: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: bill bischoff on October 15, 2023, 05:32:39 PM
I think Sullivan Products currently owns/sells Higley stuff
Title: Re: WTB: Harry Higley 3/32" wire bender
Post by: Dan McEntee on October 15, 2023, 07:34:30 PM
Quote from: bill bischoff on October 15, 2023, 05:32:39 PM
I think Sullivan Products currently owns/sells Higley stuff


   I did not know that Higley was taken over by Sullivan. I just checked the Sullivan web site and they show all the Higley tools, and it looks like they are out of stock on the 1/8" and 3/32 benders, and the 1/4-32 taps also.
   
  Type at you later,
  Dan McEntee