Fancy wire rope ends?
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:48:48 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, JR
North quickly quoth:
I don't kniow what the tensile rating is of the chuck joint, but I bet
it's nowhere near that of a properly swaged coupling.
2,680 pounds weight capacity. I wonder if you're supposed to divide
that by the 4mm opening, which would cut it to 422 lbs. Still, that'd
hold a couple large guys standing on one strand of the railing wire.
Actually, no. When applying force perpendicular to a tight wire, the force
multiplies by a large factor. In a pinch, you can winch a vehicle out of a
tight spot by tightly tying a rope between the vehicle and a tree and
applying force perpendicular to the middle of the rope. Needless to say you
have to take up the slack between each push on the rope.
Ivan Vegvary
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