SPECIAL STEEL WIRE ROPES LTD.

HANDLING AND CARE OF WIRE ROPES

 

Handling and Care of Wire Ropes

Ropes should be stored in a clean dry place under cover. Reels or coils should be kept off the ground and supported by timber. They should also be examined periodically and rope dressing renewed as required.

1. Unreeling and Uncoiling Reels should be mounted on jacks and care taken to see that the reel rotates as the rope unwinds. Timber should be applied as a lever to one of the flanges to act as a brake, keeping the rope tight and preventing the reel from overrunning. When the ropes are supplied in coils a turntalbe or swift should be employed and the free end pulled out with event tension as the swift, or turnatable revolve. Over-winding should be avoided at all times to obviate kinking. Coils may also be unwound by securing the free outside end of the rope and then rolling the coil along the ground; care being taken at all times to ensure that the coil is held firmly together, avoiding tight coils or kinks
2. Seizings - It is important that before cutting ropes are properly seized with annealed mild steel wire or strand to avoid slack wires and possible rope distortion.