It happens. We lost a chunk of oceanographic sampling gear off the
Amery Ice Shelf in 2002 when a cable got broken by a winch problem.
Blessing in disguise really as we then got to buy all new, state of the
art gear.

Blobby's knowledge of cables & wires is on a par with his knowledge of
power tools.

PDW

In article , Scott Vernon
wrote:

Was watching a History Channel show where they were searching for the
sunk 'Derbyshire'(?) and they lost a very expensive sonar piece of
equipment when the tow cable broke.

SV


"Peter Wiley" wrote in message
. ..
In article , OzOne
wrote:

On 20 Oct 2004 11:35:30 GMT, (Bobsprit)
scribbled
thusly:

Ummm Billy, galvanised was used extensively right into the 70s


And dropped because of it's high failure rate without warning.
Really, Ozzy....is this YOU?


RB

No Bubbles, it was dropped in favor of a material that more suited
a
generation that had better things to do with their time than boil
linseed which resulted in early failure of galv wire rigging.

Not quite right but we get the gist. You can use some epoxies these
days for the same purpose.

Hey Blobby, you & your sockpuppet really should learn something
about
the properties of materials before you post. Then again, it'd be a
first so nobody should hold their breath.

Clue for the clueless. How many deep ocean research vessels deploy
million-dollar pieces of equipment on s/steel wires to depths of
over 5
kilometers? It's a nice round number......

High tensile galvanised steel wire is superior in every way to
s/steel
WRT to mechanical properties. 1x19 s/steel is used for only a few
reasons and most of them are hype.

PDW