Intros

Stainless Steel Wire Rope is cost-effective, strong, durable, corrosion-resistant, and heat resistant. This makes stainless steel among the more popular wire materials precisely due to its wide range of applications and affordability. Stainless steel wire rope is very common and used in many commercial and industrial applications. Stainless steel has chromium added to the steel to … Read more

Galvanised Wire Rope is cost-effective, strong, durable, corrosion-resistant, and heat resistant. This makes it among the more popular wire materials precisely due to its wide range of applications and affordability. The right Galvanised wire rope provides the materials best suited to meet your application’s needs, while also being sensitive to budget. This requires understanding your … Read more

When it comes to choosing the right wire rope, you need to ensure you choose the materials best suited to meet your application’s needs, while also being sensitive to budget. This requires working with a wire supplier who who has an excellent Certified product and understands (and can explain) Grades, Structures, and Suitability. Commercial and … Read more

Each full reel of our Wire Rope comes from a known and recorded ‘batch’. And this is done for both Stainless Steel and Galvanised Steel Wire Ropes. Each batch of our Stainless Steel wire is graded or certified at a specified MBS and the batch will meet or exceed the rating. This is against standards … Read more

Choosing wire rope material is an important choice Wire ropes can assist in the moving of an object, loading of an object and in supporting the rigging and lifting industries. Their use can be static (e.g. architectural), or dynamic (e.g. cranes).  Wire ropes make it easier to translate motion than gears or levers.  They can … Read more

A Zip Line makes you measurably cooler… First of all, when well-built (and thought through) they are marvellous, thrilling, and at times – incredibly useful. Secondly, when shoddily constructed or poorly thought out, they can be a liability that can border on lethal. So let’s assume that you want to build something safe for both … Read more

Comparing AISI304 and AISI316 grades of stainless steel is important. While the stainless items in this website are mainly grade AISI 304 & AISI 316 – commonly referred to as G304 and G316 respectively.  And while not rigorously enforced – “Marine Grade” is generally accurately applied to only G316. Indoor vs Outdoor installation G304 stainless … Read more

Steps to Replace a Wire in a Caravan Figuring out how to Replace a Wire in a Caravan is problematic. But ultimately pretty simple Buy a Replacement First recommendation is to get a replacement wire from the manufacturer.  They made decisions about engineering, load (static/dynamic), dissimilar alloy interactions, and other relevant criteria. Alternatively – contact … Read more

The Wire Rope History and Terminology starts the invention by the German mining engineer Wilhelm Albert in the years between 1831 and 1834 for use in mining in the Harz Mountains in Lower Saxony in Germany. It was quickly determined (and accepted) because it was a dam site better than ropes made of hemp or … Read more