A type of electrical conductor comprised of a number of tiny threads. Each thread has a fine, flat ribbon of copper or other metal closely spiraled around it. Used for small size cables requiring limpness and extra-long flex life.

A component in the extrusion process for jacketing material that serves to position the conductor or core and hold it in the proper relationship to the die. It is also a die forming the inside surface of the extruder insulation or jacket.

A general term for color-coding conductors. These are color coded in a pattern in an attempt to standardize the colors used for easy understanding and guidance.

Communication exchange cable that connects the outside cable to the main distributing frame. Also used interchangeably with the term Terminating Cable.

Tire cord wire is made from silicon-killed, hot-rolled, Stelmore-cooled steel rod. The electrolytic brass-coated, high-carbon (0.65%-0.85%) steel wire is drawn to high strength levels and cabled or stranded into constructions suited for reinforcing belts and carcasses of pneumatic tires. It reinforces a tire’s shape, size-stability, bruise resistance, durability and load-carrying capability. This type of wire has very demanding requirements for properties such as tensile strength, adhesion, durability and modulus.

Also known as bead wire, tire wire is made from silicon-killed, hot-rolled, Stelmore-cooled, high-carbon (0.65%-0.80%) steel rod drawn to 0.96-2.00 mm in diameter. Tire wire is used to reinforce the bead area of a pneumatic tire. Bead wire is typically bronze-coated; however, some manufacturers produce brass-coated bead wire.

Element, chemical symbol Ti. Titanium is a strong, low-density, highly corrosion-resistant, bright white metallic element that is naturally occurring. Reduction to metal is commercially performed by reacting with magnesium. The resulting titanium sponge is melted in vacuum arc, argon plasma or electron beam furnaces.

Titanium has a density that is 56% that of steel and with equivalent strength. Its strength-to-weight ratio is greater than any other engineering material. There are several classes of titanium alloys: commercially pure alloys, where oxygen is the primary alloying element, are low-to-medium strength alloys primarily used for corrosion resistant applications; Alpha, Alpha-Beta and Beta alloys are medium- to high-strength titanium alloys with various combinations of typically aluminum, vanadium, tin, molybdenum, zirconium and chrome. Common examples are Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-3Al-2.5V.

Titanium wire is a commercially pure or alloy grade of titanium that is cold drawn and annealed. Appli­cations include weld wire for chemical process applications, biomedical, aerospace and structural.

Test used to determine alkaline pH of a solution. For instance, this can be used to “break” a solution, followed by other procedures, to determine the alkalinity of the fluid.

The amount by which a specific measurement may vary above and below the stipulated specification.

A series of copper base alloys, essentially gilding metals con­taining about 75 to 84 percent copper and the balance mainly zinc.

Also called tool steel, any high carbon or alloy steel capable of being suitably tempered for use in the manufacture of tools and dies.

See Furnace, Bell Type.

Bare (un-tinned) copper wire that is stranded and then coated with pure tin.

Topcoat

The physical or logical arrangement of a telecommunications system.

A deep longitudinal rubmark that results from abrasion by extrusion or drawing tools.

1) A coil wound in the form of a doughnut-like closed ring (e.g., current transformers). 2) In geometry, a surface generated by revolving a closed plane curve about an axis in the plane. Also, the solid enclosed by the surface.

A coil with a doughnut-like closed ring.

A streamlined metal block placed in the path of flow of the plastic material in the heating cylinder of the extruder to speed it into thin layers, thus forcing it into intimate contact with the heating areas.