Abstract: A cyclically operable spring coiling machine includes a pair of feed rolls for intermittently advancing wire longitudinally to a coiling station. A coiling arbor and a coiling tool at the station cooperatively form leading end portions of the wire to a coil spring configuration and a cutoff tool severs the coiled leading end portions of the wire to provide individual coil springs. A diameter slide carries the coiling tool and is movable approximately along the line of wire feed movement but on a side of the coiling arbor opposite the feed rolls. A second coil starter slide mounted on the diameter slide is movable along a line of movement in a lateral direction approximately at right angles to the diameter slide movement. A coil starter motor is mounted on the machine frame and a power transmitting means including a universal joint means connects the motor with the coil starter slide to move the latter between operative wire coiling and coil starting positions.