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The duties of the No. 2 machine operator, Fig. 23, principally consist of 

 furnishing several machines with supply wire, removing filled reels of 

 drawn cable wire, gaging wire, starting the machines and periodically 

 adjusting for tension. Breaks are infrequent as evidenced by the fact 

 that the average weight of reels shipped was over 340 pounds. When these 



Fig. 22 — Up-ending device for lOOO pound snppl) rtel 



machine 



breaks occur or when a change is made in the die sets, this operator also 

 strings up the machine. 



On these machines wire is drawn at 10,000 f.p.m. The importance of 

 the various mechanical and electrical details mentioned in the first section 

 of this paper can therefore be visualized. One of the No. 2 machine has, 

 for the past year, operated with certain refinements at the finishing speed 



