How much distance should I allow so I can use a turnbuckle to stretch the ends of a wire rope taut? (Each end of the cable is looped with wire-rope clamps).

On May 2, 4:14*pm, gary wrote:
How much distance should I allow so I can use a turnbuckle to stretch the ends of a wire rope taut? *(Each end of the cable is looped with wire-rope clamps).

That would seem to depend on the size of the turnbuckle.
They come in sizes from teensie weensie to huge.

On Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:14:34 PM UTC-4, gary wrote:
How much distance should I allow so I can use a turnbuckle to stretch the ends of a wire rope taut? (Each end of the cable is looped with wire-rope clamps).

Usually you get the cable as tight as you can assembling it with the turnbuckle expanded. Then tighten the turnbuckle until you have the tautness you desire.

On Thu, 2 May 2013 13:14:34 -0700 (PDT), gary
wrote in Re
Turnbuckle:

How much distance should I allow so I can use a turnbuckle to stretch the ends of a wire rope taut? (Each end of the cable is looped with wire-rope clamps).

Extend the turnbuckle to about 90% if it's length. Then pull the wire
rope as taught as you can by hand and clamp.

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gary wrote:
How much distance should I allow so I can use a turnbuckle to stretch
the ends of a wire rope taut? (Each end of the cable is looped with
wire-rope clamps).


About as long as a piece of string.



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On 05/02/2013 01:14 PM, gary wrote:
How much distance should I allow so I can use a turnbuckle to stretch
the ends of a wire rope taut? (Each end of the cable is looped with
wire-rope clamps).

How long is a piece of string?

Jon

On 5/3/13 12:51 PM, Jon Danniken wrote:
On 05/02/2013 01:14 PM, gary wrote:
How much distance should I allow so I can use a turnbuckle to stretch
the ends of a wire rope taut? (Each end of the cable is looped with
wire-rope clamps).

How long is a piece of string?

Jon

Twice as long as half of it, of course.
A rhetorical question, wasn't it.