H-LIFT Steel Wire Rope:

General Information on Wire Ropes:

Wire rope is made of plaiting strands of wire normally medium carbon steel into a thick cable. The strands are formed around a core. The strands in wire ropes are made of wore twisted together. Strands with smaller diameter wires are less abrasion resistant and more fatigue resistant. Strands made with thicker length of wore are more abrasion resistant and less fatigue resistant.

Sizes: From 3mm to 80mm
1) Wire Rope Cable surface treatment: Bright and Galvanized
2. Construction: 1 x 7, 1 x 19, 7 x 7, 6 x 19, 7 x 19, 6 x 31, 6 x 36 and so on.
3) Core: FC, IWS, IWR, SWR, NF and SF
4) Surface treatment: Self-colored, PVC coated, Hot dipped galvanized and Electro glav.

Lay of wire rope:

The lay of a wire rope describes the manner in which either the wires in a strand, or the strands in the rope, are laid in a helix.

Left and right hand lay
Left hand lay or right hand lay describe the manner in which the strands are laid to form the rope. To determine the lay of strands in the rope, a viewer looks at the rope as it points away from them. If the strands appear to turn in a clockwise direction, or like a right-hand thread, as the strands progress away from the viewer, the rope has a right hand lay. The picture of steel wire rope on this page shows a rope with right hand lay. If the strands appear to turn in an anti-clockwise direction, or like a left-hand thread, as the strands progress away from the viewer, the rope has a left hand lay.

Ordinary, Lang's and alternate lay
Ordinary and Lang's lay describe the manner in which the wires are laid to form a strand of the wire rope. To determine which has been used first identify if left or right hand lay has been used to make the rope. Then identify if a right or left hand lay has been used to twist the wires in each strand.

Construction and specification
In the above example, each individual wire is arranges around a central wire to form a 7-wire strand. Six of these strands are formed around a central core to make a wire rope. The rope is specified as 6x7 (6/1) i. E. Six strands each of seven wires.
The specification of a wire rope type including the number of wires per strand, the number of strands, and the lay of the rope is documented using a commonly accepted coding system, consisting of a number of abbreviations.Each of the sections of the wire rope designation described above is variable. There are therefore a large number of combinations of wire rope that can be specified in this manner. The following abbreviations are commonly used to specify a wire rope.