Wire ropes

Everything worth knowing about carabiners: materials from plastic to acid-resistant steel, the D, oval and HMS shapes, non-locking, screw-lock and auto-locking gates, load capacity in kN in three directions, and why the gate pin deserves your attention.

NONOX fasteners are weather-resistant, polishable and, yes, beautiful. Ideas for fitting signs with cap nuts, threaded rod and decorative washers, for discreet countersunk solutions, for security fasteners that cannot be undone, for solid rivets, and for wire ropes and chains as design elements.

What has Menet-Trend got to do with sailing? A customer's account of the 51st Barcolana Regatta in the Gulf of Trieste: a chartered 46-footer, a two-day passage from Zadar, a night blacker than any forest, a storm-force gust at the wheel – and then a race day that dawned to a complete calm.

Suspending light fittings and signs without cumbersome brackets, stair railings in metal-and-glass interiors, playgrounds and adventure parks, fences and room dividers - and, who would think it, jewellery design. Where NONOX stainless and acid-resistant wire rope earns its place.

Swaged wire rope ends need a press machine, and once swaged the joint can no longer be undone. Assemblable wire rope ends eliminate both drawbacks: a releasable joint with no looping, assembled with two open-ended spanners. Their components and the assembly procedure.

A strand made from the wires of steel or another metal, consisting of high-strength, thin elementary wires. Single and double-stranded, Lang's lay and regular lay, Seale and Warrington, running and standing ropes, and the 1834 patent that revolutionised mine hoisting.

In this article we help you get an overview of the NONOX acid-resistant wire rope fittings range, for those who decide they would like to use wire rope as a structural or decorative architectural element, whether it is a railing, a bracing structure or a decorative element.