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Re: Winching: dumb physics Q #250953 04/11/03 09:50 PM
Anonymous
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Aw, c'mon! Thats not fair! How is a newbie to learn? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" />

WHY is rope better than wire rope? <img border="0" alt="[Nerd]" title="" src="graemlins/nerd.gif" />

Re: Winching: dumb physics Q #250954 04/11/03 11:17 PM
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coldrain Offline
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Now that is good web page. Lots of good information.

Re: Winching: dumb physics Q #250955 04/12/03 01:38 AM
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Aw, c'mon! Thats not fair! How is a newbie to learn? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> WHY is rope better than wire rope? <img border="0" alt="[Nerd]" title="" src="graemlins/nerd.gif" />
I discussed a few of the reasons a while back in this product review: http://www.4x4wire.com/reviews/masterpull/

There are other good posts on this in Isuzu Talk, as well.

In a nutshell, winch rope is lightweight and easy to handle and spool onto the winch drum, and when it breaks, drops to the ground without whiplashing like cable can. Cable, or wire rope, is heavy, retains memory of being tightly wound, and ends up with sharp edges after minimal use. There's much more to discuss about this, but I'm tempted to do it somewhere other than WomBAT's physics query. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

Randii


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