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Trying to use any wire or cable that has unpredictable bends and twists can be both frustrating and expensive. These bends and twists are likely the result of stresses introduced during manufacturing or delivery. Wire straighteners will redistribute these stresses reducing or eliminating distortion, but what can you do if your straightener doesn’t solve the problem? Read on for a few suggestions that might help.

Humans have been converting raw metal into wire and forming that wire into countless shapes for a long time. Excavations at Stone Age sites have unearthed evidence of thin strips of metal that had been rolled into tube-like structures creating a product that was similar to wire. In the Neolithic period (app: 4000 BC) these soft metal tubes were hammered into a round stalk with a variable diameter and continuous longitudinal seam. Examination of these specimens revealed straightening marks likely caused by rolling the material between two flat surfaces.