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How come stainless cable is more than six times as costly as
galvanized, yet nobody uses the galvanized. Stainless the same size has about 80% of the breaking strength. Galvanized is what they guy power poles with. Casady |
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"Richard Casady" wrote in message ... How come stainless cable is more than six times as costly as galvanized, yet nobody uses the galvanized. Stainless the same size has about 80% of the breaking strength. Galvanized is what they guy power poles with. Casady Duh. Galvanized wire rusts after a season or two in a salt water environment. (Anchor chain is galvanized and it rusts after a season or two.) Run bronze hanks up and down a galvanized headstay for a season and the zinc wears off. Galvanized rigging is an anachronism. Wilbur Hubbard |
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Richard Casady wrote:
How come stainless cable is more than six times as costly as galvanized, yet nobody uses the galvanized. Stainless the same size has about 80% of the breaking strength. Galvanized is what they guy power poles with. Casady The congenitally cheap (not to mention me) join the work boat riggers in choosing galvanized, often enough.... Brian W |
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Richard Casady wrote:
How come stainless cable is more than six times as costly as galvanized, yet nobody uses the galvanized. Stainless the same size has about 80% of the breaking strength. Galvanized is what they guy power poles with. Casady Well, the price differential isn't that high, if you don't buy SS wire that is preceded by the six most expensive letters in the English alphabet; M A R I N E. The basic material is more costly, and great deal more galvanized is used throughout the world, cranes, tow cable, highway restraint cable, antenna guys, drilling derricks......etc. Properly cared for galvanized will out last steel, take an old boat restoration class or two, ignore Wilbur/Neal, he knows nothing about boats. Cheers Martin |
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Marty wrote:
Richard Casady wrote: How come stainless cable is more than six times as costly as galvanized, yet nobody uses the galvanized. Stainless the same size has about 80% of the breaking strength. Galvanized is what they guy power poles with. Casady Well, the price differential isn't that high, if you don't buy SS wire that is preceded by the six most expensive letters in the English alphabet; M A R I N E. The basic material is more costly, and great deal more galvanized is used throughout the world, cranes, tow cable, highway restraint cable, antenna guys, drilling derricks......etc. Properly cared for galvanized will out last steel, take an old boat restoration class or two, ignore Wilbur/Neal, he knows nothing about boats. Cheers Martin Bernard Boitessier rigged Joshua with galvanized wire and wood poles. Worked for him. Not exactly light or pretty but worked. |
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hpeer wrote:
Properly cared for galvanized will out last steel, take an old boat restoration class or two, ignore Wilbur/Neal, he knows nothing about boats. Cheers Martin Bernard Boitessier rigged Joshua with galvanized wire and wood poles. Worked for him. Not exactly light or pretty but worked. Indeed, check out the great sailing vessels of the end of the 19th century and early 20th, some of which are still plying the seas. Cheers Martin |
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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:29:43 -0500, Marty wrote:
Indeed, check out the great sailing vessels of the end of the 19th century Hitler built three tall ships, for Naval officer training. The USCG has one they renamed Eagle. The other two are still around. There is a tall ship in Stockholm that is now a Youth Hostel Stayed there in 69. The Af Chapman. It had been a training ship as well as a freighter. Casady |
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"Marty" wrote in message ... hpeer wrote: Properly cared for galvanized will out last steel, take an old boat restoration class or two, ignore Wilbur/Neal, he knows nothing about boats. Cheers Martin Bernard Boitessier rigged Joshua with galvanized wire and wood poles. Worked for him. Not exactly light or pretty but worked. Indeed, check out the great sailing vessels of the end of the 19th century and early 20th, some of which are still plying the seas. They were not yachts so there was no objection to coating the wires frequently with Stockholm tar to prevent corrosion. Anyway stainless steel was only invented around WW1 time |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:53:06 +0100, "Edgar"
wrote: Anyway stainless steel was only invented around WW1 time One of the very first applications was tubes for a Naval gun. Today you can get any number of different guns made entirely from the stuff. [ give or take the handles, traditionally wood.] Casady |
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