What is the plate?
The expansion plate is a plate used for a thinning wire, which is also called a cartoon wire. This tool is usually used by metal and often rectangular, used for a thin wire to a specific thickness called meters. Some wire drawing methods can strengthen the metal wire. Although they are used by some manufacturers, plates usually use artists who produce handmade jewelry. When using such a plate, the jewelry inserts the conductor into the hole that pushes the wire into the desired new meter. The wire drawing boards can have one size hole or several holes for drawing more sizes. Drawing is usually used for a thin metal wire, but the technique is also used to shape wooden dowels and threads of glass for optics fibers. The material used in such a board may vary to suit the type of metal. The most difficult metals of drawings require stronger materials such as tungsten carbide and diamond.
When a jeweler focuses on a hand wire, the board nothe only necessary tool. In addition to the perforated board, this process also requires more lubricants of metal drawings or lubricants of the plate drawing, metal files and grip pliers. Vice is used to hold a plate to a place for procedure. The lubricant should help through the wire hole and the files are used to reduce the wire to fit into the holes. The engaging pliers are used to grip the wire and hold it firmly when it is stretched by one of the holes in such a plate.
Cramping wire may be for some saving money, but for others the wires can be handled manually, that it is more difficult than it is worth saving money. Buying a wire can be cheap, so the wire work attracts an unpleasant choice. For which, who uses a large amount of wire, the plate can save money by allowing the user the size of the excess wire that is too large. A flat plate can be used to straighten the wire that bent.
Another tool called board is also used for stamp or punching shoulderhu. When pressing it is a board that holds a stamp used to create a sheet. The tool is used to form metal into molds or empty sheets, which is usually performed by a hydraulic press.