Technical Help
Solutions to help prevent payoff problems
To minimize payoff tangling and potential wire breakage, the following suggestions will prove beneficial.
The first and most important is the use of a slinger ring.This device fits on top of the wire carrier and opens the cast of the wire as it pays off the wire carrier. This helps to separate the rings of wire and any over-lapping that may occur in manufacturing or transportation.
Another way to reduce tangling is to take a handful of wire from the top of the carrier and lift it above the carrier about two feet. Then, strand by strand, place the wire back on the carrier until you have the last ring of wire in your hand. This should help to eliminate any tangling that may have occurred on the top of the wire carrier during transportation.
A weighted object should be placed around the wire to offer resistance as the wire is fed from the carrier. (This could be an old bearing, a used wire die, or a piece of a logging chain.) This object cannot be too heavy as it will drag the wire from the top of the carrier to the floor. It must rest on top of the wire. As the wire is pulled from the top of the carrier, this will also help to eliminate tangling problems.
If your payoff rack uses guide tubes, these tubes will wear from usage and will eventually form a groove in the tube. As the wire is pulled through this tube, it will score the wire, and this scoring will cause the wire to prematurely break due to the reduced area of the wire. Coastal Wire Company can supply a carbide insert that can be welded in this guide tube for a permanent fix.
By following this information, you should have trouble free operation using wire from any manufacturer.
