7 Factors to Consider When Choosing Steel Reels for Your Equipment?

Steel reels are the necessary tools in the cable and wire industry, even other linear flexible material industry. They play an important part in the whole process of production.

When you want to run a new production line for a different style cable or wire, how to choose the best steel reels? Here is the 7 factors you need to consider.

•  You should know which part of your equipment will clamp the reels, the shape of the shaft, the diameter of the shaft, and the distance between the two shafts.

• Drive pin or hole diameter, the distance from the drive pin or hole center to the shaft center.

• The available diameter of the reel flange for your equipment..

• To the delivery steel reels, you should calculate appropriate size of the reel. If you don't know how to do this you can read this article " How to know if the reel canhold the given cable and wire with length required?".

• To the Low-speed equipment you'd better choose the Pressed Steel Reels, because of the low price and good performance for the low speed equipment.

• To the high-speed equipment you'd better choose turned and dynamically balanced steel reels, such as Double Flange Steel Reels, Fully Turned Flange Steel Reels. They will keep low break rate. The high-speed equipment such as: drawing machine, frame stranding machine.

•  If you will produce a steel wire such as: tire cord, hose wire. For the process you should choose Enhanced Steel Spools, the steel wire will shrivel the common reels.

In fact, this is just very few factors you need to consider. Usually, you also need to consider some less important factors. If you don't know how to do this or have no time to do this, contact our support team, they will give you a better answer.