Wire manufacturing processes and techniques
Last year, a general contractor in Sacramento called us in a panic. He'd installed 2,400 feet of galvanized fencing wire on a $180,000 commercial project - and 14 months later, the entire east-facing ru
Here's something that keeps quality managers up at night: a single wrong ASTM callout on a purchase order can trigger a $500,000 product recall. I've seen it happen three times in the last decade - an
"A stent wire that is 0.001 inches out of spec does not just fail a quality audit - it can fail inside a patient. That is not an exaggeration. In medical device manufacturing, the wire you source is l
P.I.E. stands for Price In Effect. As many of you are finding out, when you go to purchase material you are getting quotes that say PIE.
This is one of our smaller centerless grinders, a Royal Master that we use for grinding wire from .125" to .030" in diameter. In this particular case we are end grinding and removing 15% of material, ...
With in-house centerless grinding, Western Steel & Wire can maintain short turnaround times on wire with custom length and diameters.
We get asked a lot what is the Rockwell for our wire. Material specifications only callout Tensile Strength not Rockwell. Fortunately there are tables that convert the Tensile Strength to Rockwell lik...
All wire that we supply meets a specific ASTM standard based on the material. Within these specifications, there are callouts for diameter tolerances. These tolerances are specific to the size of the ...
This video shows how we do a setup for one of our straighten and cut (S&C) machines. This particular machine is one of our medium to large machines and can S&C wire from .240" - .150" in diameter, fro...
This video shows one of our centerless grinders tapering a wire mandrel. This particular operation is grinding a 12" taper onto a .283" OTMB mandrel. For more information, visit www.westernsteelwire.c...
This video shows one of our small to medium straighten and cut (S&C) machines. This particular machine S&C wire from .100" to .200", from 4" to 12' in length. The machine pulls wire off of a large wir...