Wire Drawing Procedure

Procedure

1. Acquire a 1 x 6 x 12” steel plate
   

   Figure 4: Wire drawer jaws pulling wire out of die
2. Machine plate in ¼ x 6” rods
3. Using a FENN 76-5, slowly insert the rod through rotating swaging blocks, at approximately midway midway of rods length, slowly remove the rod and reproduce on the other half
   

   Figure 1: ¼” Steel rod resting on half a swaging block
4. Using that procedure, incrementally swage the rods from 1/4 “ to 0.140” swaging block diameter
   

   Figure 3: Smaller swagger used to point head of a rod
5. Using the {small swager name}, point the rod using 0.11”, 0.10” and 0.09” swaging block
   

   Figure 2: Nate using big swagger to reduce diameter of the rod
6. From there, insert the pointed head of the wire trough 0.1193” die and wire draw by clamping {Name wire drawing} jaws to the wire and draw
7. Point and draw wire using decreasing diameters of swaging blocks and die and stop after 0.0802” diameter die
8. Use hand pointer to reduce wire head diameter until it fits through {die that I missed} die then move to wire drawing
9. Reproduce same procedure until after die 0.04021
10. Anneal wire in furness for 30 minutes at 500℃
11. Return to hand pointing and drawing till last die of 0.030” diameter
    

    Figure 6: 0.03” diameter wire at the end of procedure