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Richard Casady Richard Casady is offline
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Default stainless rigging wire - nick in wire
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:44:16 -0700,
wrote:

I've managed to put two nicks in the 1/19 stainless forestay on my 32'
boat. Dont ask how, far too embarassing, suffice to say a hack saw got
drawn across the wire. Nothing was cut through, but two small chunks
got taken out of two strands. How dangerous is this?

Sand the edges smooth to reduce stress concentration. Wrap over the
nicks with very fine wire that is wet with epoxy, this will reenforce
the weak spot. If 17/19 of the original strength is not good enough,
there is far too little safety margin in the design.

Casady
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