Choosing the Right Wire Rope for Your Application

 

With each application, your choices of wire ropes can be many. How do you know which one works best for you? Ropes include a combination of characteristics that give them specific performance abilities. Before you choose, it pays to look closely at each rope's special characteristics.

No single wire rope

can do it all!

All wire ropes feature design characteristic tradeoffs. In cases, a wire rope cannot increase both fatigue resistance and abrasion resistance. For example, when you increase fatigue resistance by selecting a rope with more wires, the rope will have less abrasion resistance because of its greater number of smaller outer wires.

When you need wire rope with greater abrasion resistance, one choice is a rope with fewer (and larger) outer wires to reduce the effects of surface wear. But that means the rope's fatigue resistance will decrease. That's why you need to choose your wire rope like you would any other machine. Very carefully. You must consider all operating conditions and rope characteristics.

 

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