Big dumb horse bent the attached brass clip, I tried to straighten it cold by pounding on it but the shape isn't quite right so the spring clip doesn't close properly. Can you heat brass like steel to get it to bend easier? I think it's forged, surface is pretty smooth, but maybe cast and polished.
Bending brass horse tack, can you heat it?
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You can make it softer and easier to bend by heating it, then letting it cool (fast or slow, doesn't matter unlike steel).
The problem then is it stays softer and easier to bend once you are done, and the horse is even more likely to unbend it again with another hard pull.
If it were rivetted instead of stitched, I'd say clip the rivets and replace the clip. The only other option I can come up with is to cut the D-ring that the leather loops through to get the old clip off, then use a replacement style clip like this: HALTER SNAP 1in. BRASS WITH SS SCREW-Big Dee's Tack & Vet Supply
The problem then is it stays softer and easier to bend once you are done, and the horse is even more likely to unbend it again with another hard pull.
If it were rivetted instead of stitched, I'd say clip the rivets and replace the clip. The only other option I can come up with is to cut the D-ring that the leather loops through to get the old clip off, then use a replacement style clip like this: HALTER SNAP 1in. BRASS WITH SS SCREW-Big Dee's Tack & Vet Supply
Don't know what hot short means, but I tried heating it and it broke as soon as I tried to bend it. I had it cherry red with a torch, maybe that was too hot.
Now that's the ticket, never saw one of those. She was going to take it to the tack shop and have a new one sewed on, this is much easier.
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Jimbrown
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My experience with those things is tht they are not really brass but some form of brass colored pot medal. I find them much weaker and prone to break than the stainless ones. I only buy the stainless ones. My throughbred and friesian will snap those brassy ones like plastic.
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That is what 'hot short" means, The metal loses all strength and elasticity when it's hot. Short on strength, hot short.
Aluminum the same way.. die cst aluminum.....Way hot short ;-)
