This particular coathanger happens to have a nice shiny black coating on it, and I didn’t want to scratch, damage or remove that coating.

So I bent this one 100% by hand, with no pliers or anything, just my hands, fingers and muscles. And yes, it was extremely challenging, I’m surprised I didn’t get any blisters and only broke one thumbnail in the process.

Note that I managed to get this one to stand up and balance on its own without a stand. I did that by ever so slightly curving the final result, the center is about 5mm closer to the viewer than the ends.

  • over_cloxOPEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I actually tested your thought/idea yesterday on a scrap bit I clipped off the end of this.

    I already had a bicycle innertube that I cut bits out of for other projects, plus some double sided tape, so yeah why not try your idea? And so I did, on a scrap piece…

    Even with perfectly attached ad perfectly cut rubber inner tube attached with perfectly cut double sided tape to adhere it, still the resulting rubber bufered pliers ended up damaging the clean coathanger plastic coating…

    TL;DR - Tried it for the good experimental cause, didn’t work though.

      • over_cloxOPEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Na my dude, don’t shame yourself like that, your idea seemed like it might make sense.

        So I tried exactly that, for science. Sorry it didn’t work, but it drove me down a new rabbit hole on how to temper and blacken iron.

        Guess what? I succeeded in learning metal tempering instead…