USE/CARE OF HANDTOOLS & MEASURING TOOLS - OD1621 - LESSON 3/TASK 1
TABLE III.
INDEX OF GAGING SYSTEMS USED
FOR VARIOUS METALS AND
COMMODITIES.
(2) Wire Gaging Systems.
(a) Steel Wire Gaging System (SWG) or Washburn & Moen Gaging
System. This gaging system is used for steel wire, carbon steel mechanical
spring wire, alloy steel spring wire, stainless steel wire, etc.
Carbon
steel or music wire (wire used in the manufacture of musical instruments) is
nominally specified to the sizes in the American Steel & Wire Company music
wire sizes, although it is referred to by a number of other names found in
steel catalogs.
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