Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing strip material including feeding a supply of unprocessed strip material from a coil thereof, passing the strip material through bending means for forming the strip material about small diameter bending angles to remove non-resilient materials from the surface thereof, stripping the sides and edges of the material by applying reversely rotating steel brushes to the sides thereof, scraping the sides and edges of the strip material by the use of abrasion surfaces such as sandpaper and the like which may be rotated in the opposite direction to the movement of the strip material through the processing equipment, apparatus for straightening the strip material by stretching and pulling it while extended about a group of rollers, and a winding station for pulling the strip material through the processing system and for rolling the processed strip material onto insulated conductor coils.