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A Complete Guide To Wire Rope Clips
A Complete Guide To Wire Rope Clips
A Complete Guide To Wire Rope Clips
Cast and malleable wire rope clips can only be used under light duty loads applications with
relatively light loads, such as handrails, fencing, guard rails, etc.
Galvanized Malleable Wire Rope Clip
While the drop forged wire rope clip variety is recommended for important, critical or sustaining
overhead loads, such as guy lines, support lines, scaffolding, etc. The drop forged wire rope clips
can be used in critical suspending, guying, and tie-down applications for the die forging process
make them strong and more durable and the heating and hammering steps make their structure to
be consistent and conform to the shape of the forged item.
Carbon steel wire rope cable clamps are galvanized, or hot dipped galvanized, the galvanised
metal wire clamp has an added zinc layer to prevent rusting and protect against scratching and
the addition of carbon corresponds with an increase in the hardness and strength of wire rope
cable clamps. G, but stainless steel wire rope clamps are the best choice for corrosion-resistant
applications that can be used for saltwater environments.
Sta
inless Steel Wire Rope Clips
How to install wire rope clips?
Commonly wire rope clamp installation is very simple, there’s a well-known saying can help you
remember how to attach wire rope clips, that reads “never saddle a dead horse.” Just follow the
recommendation ways:
The dead-end of the wire rope (the end of the cut side) must be contacted with the U bolt,
then the saddle should be on the live end.
Keep three or more wire rope clips attached at the end of the wire rope dead end, space
between each wire rope clip should be at least 6 times the wire rope diameter.
Tighten the wire rope clip closest to the thimble eye loop as possible, and never start
from the one farthest from eye separately first.
You can see the correct and incorrect ways of installation from the following pictures and
find how many wire rope clips to use at one wire rope loop.
See these posts for understanding the wire rope installation: Wire rope thimble
installation & How to crimp ferrule?