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Six Tips to Enhance Wire Straightener Performance

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Six Tips to Enhance Wire Straightener Performance

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.

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What is the Purpose of a Wire Straightener?

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What is the Purpose of a Wire Straightener?

Wire straighteners are designed to relieve constructional and natural stresses by forcibly bending the material past its yield point. This process can remove or reduce wire distortion creating a product that can be applied with greater accuracy and efficiency. Our products focus on processing insulated cable, which presents unique challenges, but the same principles of straightening apply to other materials such as non insulated copper and aluminum bare wire.

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A Brief History of Wire Straightening

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A Brief History of Wire Straightening

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.

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