Abstract: A method and an apparatus for forming a waveguide conductor ribbon by passing several light waveguides through a through-opening so that as the waveguides are passed through the opening, they are coated by a liquid coating material, which creates a drag force current for moving the waveguides through the opening. The diameter of the light waveguides and/or the position of the light waveguides inside the ribbon conductor is determined and the width of the through-opening of the coating apparatus is modified on the basis of the measured diameter value and/or on the basis of the size of any gap between the fibers to optimize the amount of drag current forces being produced.

Abstract: A comb-like slotted melting arbor (4) having a transverse groove of a size equal to the wire diameter is used to strip insulated, preferably thermoplastic insulated, solid and stranded wires both partially at intermediate sections and at the ends. The arbor is pressed against the solid and/or stranded wire with a specific force and is briefly heated by means of a current pulse.

Abstract: A unit for use with an interferometer for measuring the planeness of thin, stiff disks and has asuction means for maintaining the disks in flat abutment with an equalizer plate which is adjustable by means of micrometer spindles to move an opposite side of the disk into flat abutment with a reference plate. The equalizer plate, spindles and suction grid are supported on a base plate which is axially rotatable about a column for movement from underneath the reference plate to place the disks on the suction grid. A clamping means is provided around the column to hold the assembly in a fixed, rigid position.