My daughter and her husband wanted me to make another item for their Escape Room. This project is called a Buzz Wire, which I'd never heard of before until Matt explained it to me: a wire or piece of bar stock that is fastened to a wall and someone has a wand with a hoop on the end that needs to go from one end to the other without touching the two together.

Then it hit me, this concept is the same as the old game "Operation" that I played when I was a kid. If you're not familiar, look it up. Anyways, this sounded like it would be fun to make so Matt came over and we talked about what he wanted.

What you see below is mild steel bar stock, which is 3/8" diameter and is over 6 feet long. We will be making two of everything because Matt and Angela have been contracted to help build at another location near by.
 

Working With Metal
 

I used the table on my milling machine to do the bending which worked out great. I clamped on one part of the work piece, then bent the bar stock around a bushing that was also clamped to the table to whatever Matt wanted.
 

I'm making two sets here: one for Open Door Escape Games and one set for the other room. The blocks on the right with the larger 3/8" hole will fit the buzz wire and fasten to the wall. The set screw in the middle will keep the buzz wire in place.

The blocks on the left will also be fastened to the wall but will hold some 3/16" bar stock. This 3/16 steel bar will be used to start and end the game with (one at each end).
 

Here I'm bending the 3/16" steel bar around a bushing. These are going to be the start and end pieces I talked about. Just like the larger 3/8" diameter material, no heat is required, just bend it.