because servicing of the spools and or wires can take place away from the machine itself and without the machine being stopped while it takes place fig1 illustrates how embodiments of this invention may also include a cover such as a dome 300 of expanded metal or plexiglass as illustrated for purposes of noise reduction safety and reduction of contamination it is to be understood that the embodiments of this invention herein disclosed and illustrated are by way of illustration and not of limitation and that this invention may be carried out in a wide variety of embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of this invention it is also to be understood from the foregoing that embodiments made in accordance with the present invention make it possible to achieve advantages over prior art apparatus for producing stranded wire which as previously noted include stranders of the 34 buncher 34 and the 34 barrel 34 type with the former individual wires from spools outside the machine are twisted and are gathered on an interior take up spool this configuration makes it impossible to check the strand being produced without stopping the machine a barrel strander on the other hand permits such monitoring to take place without stopping the machine but because the spools of constituent single end wire are arrayed linearly along the axis of the barrel and must be held substantially stationary while.