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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.

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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



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....

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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
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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
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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.

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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.


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"
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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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