Multistrand steel wire used as antenna guy wires, bridge supports, and plenty of other uses. The [HowNot2] team tested an old rule of thumb for wire rope. “Never saddle a dead horse” .

Steel Cable. For as long as winching has been around, the industry standard has been aircraft-grade steel cable, which is more durable than synthetic rope, but comes at the expense of weight and ...

Wire rope is a steel industry term for the rope-like product commonly called steel cable. Wire rope ranges in thickness from 1/16th of an inch, used for aircraft cable, to the 5 1/2 -inch-thick ...

"A steel rope is a very good-natured component, in the sense that it can put up with a lot, and doesn't break quickly," Eisinger says, pointing out that a modern cable car rope is made of up to ...

Because wire rope can be heavy and bulky and often spins under load, Mike Herbert, Manitowoc Inc.'s global product director for rough-terrain cranes, has long sought an alternative. Even with ...

Dhanbad, Jan. 12 -- A one day workshop on "Advances in Non-Destructive Evaluation of Steel Wire Rope in Mining and Aerial Installations: Theory and Practice" organised jointly at CSIR-CIMFR and ...

Steel wire winch cable has been the mainstay of the winching, recovery, and hauling industry for many years. With the introduction of synthetic winch rope in the early ’90s and its subsequent ...