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1, Scope aa
1.1 This specification covers a high quality,
Found, cold-dravi, steel music spring quality
wire, utiform in mechanical properties intended
specially for the manufacture of springs subject
{0 high stresses or requiring good fatigue prop-
:
1.2 The values stated in cither St (metric)
units or inch-pound units are to be regarded
separately as standard. The values stated in each
System are not exact equivalents; therefore, each
system must be used independently of the other.
2.1 ASTM Standards:
‘A.37) Methods and Definitions for Mechani
cal Testing of Stee! Products?
‘A 510 Specification for General Requirements
efor Wire Rods and Coarse Round Wire,
‘Carbon Stee?
‘A 510M Specification for General Require:
‘ments for Wire Rods and Coarse Round
Wire, Carbon Steel [Metric
‘A 700 Practices for Packaging, Marking, and
Loading Methods for Steel Products for Do-
‘mestic Shipment?
‘A751 Methods, Practices, and Definitions for
Chemical Analysis of Stel Products?
E 29 Recommended Practice for Indicating
which Places of Figures are to be Considered
Significant in Spectied Limiting Values*
E 380 Metric Practicet
22 Miltary Standard:
MIL-STD-163 Steel Mill Products, Prepara-
tion for Shipment and Storage?
23 Federal Standard:
Fed, Std. No. 123, Marking for Shipment
(Civil Agencies)? 2
3. Ondering Inforztation
3.1 Material furnished under this specification
shall conform to the applicable requirements of
the current edition of either Specifications
ASIOM oF A 510,
3.2 Orders for material under this specifica
tion shall include the following information for
each ordered item:
3.2.1 Quantity (mass),
3.2.2 Name of material (music steel spring
wire),
32:3 Dimensions (Table | and Section 7),
3.24 Finish (sce 8.2),
3.25 Packaging (Section 13),
3.26 Heat analysis report, if requested (sce
5.2),
3.27 Cenification or test repon. oF both, if
specified (Section 12), and
3.2.8 ASTM designation and year of issue,
INovs—A vypical metic ordering description is as
follows: 2500 kg Musie Spring Wire, 40 mm diameter
‘hosplate coated in 25 kg cals to ASTM A228 dated
Fre, ineh-pound units, S000 I Music Spring
‘Wire, 0.055 in. diameter, phosphate coated in 0 1S
cls io ASTM A226 dated
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Crea tion approved Jal 29.1983, Pubs Novem
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ion A287,
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| Aan Bok of ASTM Standards Vet 9108
1 dal Bioko ASTM Sandra Vl 198
(Avs Naval Pubcaons ane Forms Center, S801
Tater Ave, Padi, Pa 19138"4. Manufacture the wire. The closed col shall be stretched so thst
gy deste may be made by any commer. it ss to approximately thre times its enna