Malleable Metal Question
Malleable Metal Question
(OP)
Is there a metal or metal alloy that I could wire into a very long shoelace to prevent accidental knotting of the shoe lace. It should have the properties of not being brittle so that no matter how many times it's bent at a certain point is doesn't snap and also be malleable/soft enough to maintain the function of a shoelace.





RE: Malleable Metal Question
I don't understand how the metal wire would prevent accidental knotting--or what accidental knotting is.
Are you wanting to tie shoes with pipe cleaners?
I think the short answer is probably no, just due to the "no matter how many times" specification.
RE: Malleable Metal Question
RE: Malleable Metal Question
There are probably some metals out there that would have a marked lessened tendency to break under repeated bending, but I don't know much about them. Obviously really ductile stuff like gold and aluminum.
Does it need to be a metal wire?
Alternatively, there are form-holding close-ended polymer tubes filled with granules that may serve the purpose depending on the bend angles and required diameter. We have some of these for rod templates. It's a soft plastic cylinder (in our case, 5.5mm diameter by 200 long) filled with--I believe--alumina particles. At least in that case it wouldn't be the metal breaking--it's already in millions of pieces.
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"coiled telephone cord"
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