Which steel bends easily?
I know we have a few machinists/metal fabricators here, so I'm hoping that someone will have some good advice on this: I'm working on a project where I need to bend short pieces of 3mm steel rod to a 3mm inner radius. I have been using drill rod so far, but it is a bit too hard and "springy" to get a nice 90 degree bend with a defined radius. Is there any other material than drill rod that would work better? The problem is that it needs to have a smooth finish (not necessarily ground though), and of course, it also need to be metric or a close equivalent.
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