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The status of the construction of the KLOE Drift Chamber is reviewed.
With its 4 m diameter, it will be the biggest drift chamber ever built
. The stringing of 52 000 wires is a titanic effort: details are given
about the semiautomatic system, the quality tests on wires and the mo
nitoring of end-plates deformations. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. Al
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