Feather Touch Tension Wrench Idea

[Steve24]

I was at Home Depot the other day and noticed piles of those thin metal straps they use to keep boxes attached to the pallets. It got me thinking if someone ground them down to the right size, bent it into a tension wrench and then made a 90 degree turn in the handle it might make a really great delicate touch tension wrench? Any tried this?

[op-sec]

You're going to be very hard pressed to get that steel to bend. It's very brittle.

What you could do however is screw/rivet a piece of that between two pieces of normal steel to act as a flex.

Something like:

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