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If there are folds in the wire, the rolling mill is goofed up. Grains should be longer in the rolled direction (depending on heat treatment, grains can get complicated) but irregular grain structures - especially in steel products - is normally bad unless it is a very special application. Rolling direction does matter, you are supposed to alternate in long tanks, stagger the welds, etc - but long products are thankfully simpler.In my uninformed imagination, you basically melt (smelt, apparently) raw copper and then pull/squeeze it out through a hole somehow. Imagine pulling a fuzzy wet rope through a hole you form with your fingers - the fuzzy bits will mostly point in the opposite direction of the rope's movement. So if you look at the rope from the front it's much smoother, i.e. the surface area is much lower than if you look at it from the back. Back to the wire, this would mean the wire is less able to pick up radio waves in one direction than the other. So I suppose you want the end of the wire that came out first to be connected to the source device (say, a DAC) and the other side to the target device (say, an integrated amp) so that the direction more susceptible to noise is towards the source end, just like you would connect a shield on that side only, and so the noise gets drained to ground.
Now that's just my vivid imagination trying to make sense of astounding claims by one Garth Powell, I have not progressed past the point of ignorance, skepticism and confusion.
Some steel mills still have a job in hot mills called a hooker. Basically hooks and unhooks stuff from the crane.But in Texas you can sub as a Hooker?