High Speed Benchtop Wire Twisting and Stranding Machine WM-4717

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The WM-4717 is a single-spindle benchtop machine that twists two or more insulated wires into one laid strand along the whole lead — up to 6 m of finished length per run, on wire from 12 to 36 AWG. Turn count is keyed in from 0.5 to 9,999.9 turns on an English keypad, spindle direction is reversible, and up to 99 recipes and 20 winding processes are stored in the controller. The manufacturer rates it at 1,500 pcs/hour. It weighs 25 kg and occupies 200 × 300 × 300 mm of bench, running on AC 220 V or AC 110 V.

Specifications

Key features

• Turn count is a number, not a feel — key in anything from half a turn to 9,999.9 turns and every lead in the batch comes out at the same lay
• Reversible spindle: S-lay or Z-lay is a setting, not a rebuild, so a pair can be matched to whatever the drawing or the mating harness already uses
• 99 stored recipes and 20 winding processes — recurring part numbers are recalled instead of re-entered at every changeover
• Twisting speed and twisting force are both adjustable, so soft silicone lead and stiff PVC hookup wire can each be run at a setting that lays evenly without stretching the insulation
• 25 kg on a 200 × 300 mm footprint — it sits on a workbench next to the operator rather than needing floor space and a forklift
• Free sample test — send your wire and the pitch you want, we run it on this machine and send you the video before you order

What it processes

• Twisted pairs and stranded leads for electronic wire, hook-up wire and appliance harnesses
• Winding wire and braided shielded wire that has to be laid before assembly
• Computer and data cable leads where a defined lay length controls crosstalk and loop area
• Automotive wiring where signal pairs are twisted down to a specified turn count
• Prototype, sample and short-run work in harness shops that still twist pairs with a cordless drill

Suited for: laying twisted pairs and stranded leads up to 6 m long from 12–36 AWG wire you have already cut to length, at a turn count you set once and repeat exactly. Not suited for: high-volume production off one spindle — at a rated 1,500 pcs/hour the WM-4716 six-axis wire twisting machine lays six pairs per cycle instead of one and is the better answer above a few thousand leads a shift. It also has no blades and no solder pot: if you are starting from a reel, the WM-187 cutting, stripping and twisting machine covers 0.1–4.5 mm² single wire and 0.1–2.5 mm² double wire at 4,000–10,000 pcs/h, and if the ends must come out tinned the WM-4706W multi-wire stripping, twisting and tinning machine handles up to ten independent 18–28 AWG wires with 0.1–10 mm tinning. And if the job is not a twisted pair at all but simply tightening the loose strands on one stripped end, the WM-4720 benchtop wire strand twisting machine does that alone on 1–3 mm wire with a twist of 20 mm or less, at 3,000 pcs/h.

A twisted pair is only as good as its consistency. Hand-twisting with a drill gives you a lay that tightens when the operator is fresh and loosens by the end of the shift, and the difference shows up twice: in how the lead sits in a routing channel, and in what an incoming-inspection gauge says about pitch. On this machine the number of turns is entered on the keypad and counted by the controller, so lead number one and lead number four hundred come out the same. Direction is a setting too, which matters more often than people expect — a pair laid the wrong way round fights the lay of everything it is bundled with.

Because the platform is also offered in two-, three- and five-spindle versions, the sensible way to buy it is to run your own wire first. Send us two to three metres of each conductor and the pitch you want, and we will return the trial video, the measured lay length, and an honest read on whether one spindle covers your volume.