Help making copper D rings

I would build a bending jig, and know you will make the tabs longer than needed and cut them to the right size once formed.
 

A bending jig can be made in various styles some more complicated than others. A fairly simple one could be made similar to the one in the link. The radius of the bend is determined by the diameter of the central pivot pin. You could probably get by busing wooden dowels for bending 6 gage copper.

https://www.micromark.com/Vise-Mounted-Wire-Bender?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NX_NTM_Shopping_Segregated&utm_term=4576442278804682&utm_content=Benders
 
Looks like you have a fun project there, but sometimes you have to consider the benefit gained vs the effort.
 
tod osier said:
Looks like you have a fun project there, but sometimes you have to consider the benefit gained vs the effort.
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Agreed, why not just tie that line through the hole in the keel and forget the D-Ring?
 
Paul Mc said:
tod osier said:
Looks like you have a fun project there, but sometimes you have to consider the benefit gained vs the effort.
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Agreed, why not just tie that line through the hole in the keel and forget the D-Ring?
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Beg to differ, It adds style! pazzazz! Of course once the copper oxidizes some of that pazzazz will fade away. [;)]
 
Paul Mc said:
tod osier said:
Looks like you have a fun project there, but sometimes you have to consider the benefit gained vs the effort.
Click to expand...
Agreed, why not just tie that line through the hole in the keel and forget the D-Ring?
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Paul/Tod
There will be rings on each end.
I use clips with swivels to attach the line to the decoys (just order more)
Because of the strong current and depending on wind direction I can change what direction they face
Pat
 
Huntindave McCann said:
Paul Mc said:
tod osier said:
Looks like you have a fun project there, but sometimes you have to consider the benefit gained vs the effort.
Click to expand...
Agreed, why not just tie that line through the hole in the keel and forget the D-Ring?
Click to expand...

Beg to differ, It adds style! pazzazz! Of course once the copper oxidizes some of that pazzazz will fade away. [;)]
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I knew that was coming....
 
patrick mccarthy said:
Paul Mc said:
tod osier said:
Looks like you have a fun project there, but sometimes you have to consider the benefit gained vs the effort.
Click to expand...
Agreed, why not just tie that line through the hole in the keel and forget the D-Ring?
Click to expand...

Paul/Tod
There will be rings on each end.
I use clips with swivels to attach the line to the decoys (just order more)
Because of the strong current and depending on wind direction I can change what direction they face
Pat
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Got it.....
 
Hopefully you won't get a metal on metal symphony from these birds, once they are deployed.

Jim Wicks used to make swing keel weights for his decoys. He picked up a huge pile of scrap wound copper when he was working at the Steven T. Mason building. The contractor gave two of the MDNR employees a huge crate full of cable sections which the sawed to length and then removed the outer plastic sheath. Jim used these runs of copper wire to make his swing weights, forming his own jigs to pour the keel weights to mimic the contours of the keels he made. Once we were sitting in his boatblind on a calm day looking out at his rig when the wind picked-up. As the decoys began to rock and animate, a chorus of creaking issued from the swing keel weights as their copper wire abraded against the metal eyes that mounted them in the keels. Jim looked over at me and said, "I think I am going to go back to regular weighted keels, that noise reminds me too much of my old joints in the morning when I first get up!" I smiled at him and told him that maybe the decoys have arthritis too, at their advanced age! Tempus fugit!!
 
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