My blueprint of my LM70 clearly states that the pull/down cable shall be ..3/16..7X19 and have a WORKING LOAD of 1400 pounds....most cable sold advertise a BREAKING STRENGTH ... And I am told the Wor
Maybe you're thinking of guy tensioning recommendations: 1/10th of rated capacity? For a hoist application, the mfr may have different recommendations. Engineering such things is a bit different (wha
Bill, You might check up, but the recommended cable specification has changed on the LM-470. When I re-cabled mine the cable recommended by Tashjian was 1/4", now this is the bit I can't remember and
*Here is what the folks at Amtec are saying... I use there cable grips... * *The broad application of AMTEC Grips on a wide variety of objects requires that adequate safety factors be used to establi
Yep.. that's sort of what I was thinking.. each designer chooses what they want to use as a safety factor for each application. It covers things like material property uncertainty (e.g. was it a slig
I just happened to be checking a power winch/capstan website yesterday and read that the recommended cable for lifting is 5x the maximum load, and for pulling, I don't remember exactly but about 2 or