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Choosing A Binding System : Four Reasons To Choose Twin Loop Wire Binding

Choosing the right binding system to represent the image of your organization can be difficult. There are many different binding styles available to choose from. You may have seen plastic comb binding, spiral coil binding, thermal binding or even Velobind. All of these binding styles have a unique look and feel that may be right for your company. However, twin loop wire binding (also called wire-o or double loop wire binding) boasts several unique features that help to set it apart as a superior choice for binding your documents. This article provides a brief outline of four reasons to choose twin loop wire binding for your organization. Here they are...

1. Professional Appearance: Wire-O binding offers a neat and tidy appearance that is more elegant than any other binding style on the market. The thin coated steel wire offers the ultimate professional look and feel for your reports, presentations and proposals. This professional appearance makes twin loop wire binding a favorite for financial services companies, real estate professionals, architects and engineers.

2. 360 Degree Wrap: One of the great things about twin loop wire binding is that it offers a full 360 degree rotation for pages bound into your documents. This means that pages from the front of the document can be wrapped around to the back of the document. This feature makes twin loop wire binding a popular option for binding calendars and notebooks. Calendars are often bound with twin loop wire binding and a special calendar hanger to allow you to comfortably hang the calendar on the wall.

3. Variety: Twin loop wire binding spines are available in a number of different sizes and colors to match the color of your company logo or report covers. Wire-O spines are available in thirteen different colors including: black, white, silver, blue, bronze, gray, green, red, navy blue, yellow, dark green, cream and gold. Elements are also available in a number of sizes starting at 3/16" for documents that are as thin as just a few pages and up to 1-1/2" for extremely thick documents. However, it is important to note that although wire is available in all of these sizes in order to bind documents with all of the sizes of wire you have to have a dual format wire binding machine or use special 2:1 pitch small size wire binding spines.

4. Temperature Resistant: With plastic comb binding, spiral coil binding and thermal binding, temperature extremes can damage the binding spine of documents. Temperature has very little effect on wire-o bound documents. The steel spines used in double loop wire binding do not become brittle when exposed to extremely cold temperatures and do not become deformed or soft when exposed to extremely hot temperatures.

Twin loop wire binding offers one of the highest quality options for binding documents, presentations and proposals. The professional look, ability to completely Wrap Around, variety of colors and sizes along with its ability to withstand extreme temperatures make wire binding a logical choice for many organizations. If your company needs a highly professional binding solution, consider choosing wire-o for all your presentations.

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How to tell which is the hot wire?

I am installing a new Light Fixture. When I read the instructions it says to connect the hot wire to the black wire and neutral to the white wire in the outlet box. My problem is when I split the wires on the light fixture, how to I tell which is the hot and which is the cold wire. The wire is the same color. There is some writing on one of the wires that come from the light. Is that the hot wire?

At that point it doesn't really matter. However, if your fixture follows any sort of convention the neutral wire itself (not the insulation) may (or may not) be silvery, while the hot wire will be gold colored. If this fixture was made in China then anything goes and all bets are off. I assume that what you are looking at is a lampcord type of wire coming from the base of the light fixture and the insulation maybe just clear plastic. If that is the case then you can see the conductors inside, and hopefully one is silver and one is gold.

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