If you’re into building large projects, you’ll eventually find yourself looking at wire rope. Multistrand steel wire used as antenna guy wires, bridge supports, and plenty of other uses.

The innovative two-point rotation of this rope keeps things moving quickly—very quickly. $28 from Rogue Fitness The PVC-coated wire-cable Rogue SR-1 Bearing Speed Rope uses two distinct ...

Wire cable versus synthetic winch rope? It's a question for the ages—but not really. The answer is pretty simple and boils down to what you want from your winch. Are you a recreational user or ...

Its applicability for ships' rigging has been put to a careful test at Liverpool, when the following results were obtained:—3J inch galvanized wire rope broke at 20 tuns 15 cwt.; 3| inch ...

We learn from a foreign exchange that a series of experiments were recently made at the "Woolwich dockyard, England, to iest the comparative strength of wire ropes manufactured by Messrs.

Commercial quality "aircraft" grade cable and wire rope are mechanical devices consisting of multiple wires or strands, helically wound or laid about an axis. Commercial quality "aircraft" grade ...

At first glance, replacing steel wire rope and chain, and even conventional synthetic fibres, such as nylon and polyester, with high-performance polyethylene (HPPE), does not appear to be a radical ...