Abstract: Making a wire pack in which a plurality of wires of predetermined length extend between a pair of spaced supports by wrapping turns of wire in a helix around a cylindrical roll while maintaining a constant tension on the wire, placing the supports in position adjacent but spaced from each other and extending axially of the roll and clamping the wire to the supports, and then cutting the wire segments extending between the adjacent supports.
Abstract: An expansible shaft including a hollow axially-extending body and operatively coupled core engaging and retracting sections within the body. The core engaging section includes a core engager movable relative to the body in a direction generally perpendicular to the axis of the body and biased towards a core engagement position in which it projects beyond the wall of the body; and the retracting section includes an actuator arranged to overcome the bias and move the core engager radially inwardly from its core engagement position.