Doug Rupert wrote: > Check the strength differences between the two. Galvanized is stronger by > far and worth the extra inspection safety wise as far as I personally > believe. I was going to go the same way until I looked at the breaking > strength cable size foe size. Need 3/16 inch stainless to equal 1/8 inch > galvanized strength figures.
Maybe from your source that's true, but from Wicks, they state that both 3/32" stainless and 3/32" galvanized are good for 920 pounds in 7x7 form. In 7x19 form, galvanized is good for 1000 punds, while stainless is good for 920. Hardly what I'd call "far stronger". After all, it's 3/32" cable that's called for in the plans, and as we usually say in KR land, "unless there've been failures, it's not a problem that needs fixing". I'm kind of like Larry on this....I'm not sure what in the world you'd use 1/8" or 3/16" cable for anyway. Just about anything else in the system would break before you could put four thousand pounds on that 1/8" cable. I doubt that my ankles are even rated for 920 pounds... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see homebuilt airplane at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
