Reaffirmed 2021

1 Scope

1.1 This standard covers the requirements for two grades of colddrawn mild steel wire ranging from 1.60 to 12.50 mm diameter,suitable for the manufacture of machine screws by cold heading andthread rolling process.

2 References

IS 2 :1960Rules for rounding off numerical values

IS 1521 :1972Method for tensile testing of steel wire

IS 8910 :1978General technical delivery requirements forsteel and steel products