degasser and the degasser was finally blocked by solidified polymer at lower processing temperatures the gas formation was not entirely suppressed and the formation of gas bubbles in the extrudate was also visible by increasing the winding speed of the extrudate a thread with a smaller diameter was obtained after drawing these thick monofilaments show a tensile strength of about 400 mn tex compared with the previously described experiment the extrusion of the ce9302s sample was rather successful the formation of gas was significantly lower than for the ce9204 samples again by increasing the winding speed of the extrudate a thick monofilament is obtained monofilaments have been drawn batchwise on a thermorheometer since parts of the fiber close to the crosshead remained undrawn the effective draw ratio u03bb eff was determined by measuring the length of the drawn part of the fiber in the temperature range of interest the effective draw ratio is about 10 higher than the set draw ratio in table 2 the properties are listed of the monofilaments prepared at an initial draw rate of about 100 200 min and under different temperature conditions the average values were determined from five independent tensile tests and the numbers between parenthesis are the maximum observed values for the tensile strength and the corresponding yarn count elongation at break and initial tensile modulus table 3______________________________________properties of drawn ce9302s monofilaments elonga tion inh run.