WCA July 2016

Dies

A single misplaced stroke will destroy the potential rare gem within a rough diamond – and so it is in wiremaking. If a die is “off”, the feedstock that is drawn through it is, too. For a production run of wire on a machine operating at high-flow velocities, this is death – waste – by a thousand cuts. With a product no thicker than a human hair, surface defects are not to be tolerated. For this reason die making has always held a high place in the wire plant. In this era of progressive, secondary, and compound dies, it still does.

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