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 ...

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” .

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 ...

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 ...