Splicing/braiding wire rope

[saltbranch]

Are you wanting to see a handsplice video? We do splicing at work daily, we mainly do the flemish with a swage on sleeve.
For the handsplice we have vices specifically set up for this to make it faster and easier. I'll tell ya one thing I think is cool is the long splice,,joining 2 section of wire rope, the splice area is about 40' long and once spliced is complete you would be hard pressed to find it.

 

[pat32rf]

I've done the Flemish and clamped off the tag ends, just to try it but I'd sooner stick to nylon rope when splicing.....
Good info on that wesco link, don't know how often people have told me that I MUST "saddle the dead horse" to spread the strain

 

[crazyal]

There's a guy who makes a nice living splicing the wire rope used at ski areas around here. It doesn't look too hard but when someone is good at something it doesn't look hard. If it was easy I would guess that others would be doing it.

 

[saltbranch]

I've done the Flemish and clamped off the tag ends, just to try it but I'd sooner stick to nylon rope when splicing.....
Good info on that wesco link, don't know how often people have told me that I MUST "saddle the dead horse" to spread the strain

I run into alot of that with customers, I always tell them Never Saddle a Dead Horse, shown them where it states in the manufactures books etc.

Handsplices are alot of work, doubt I could do one today,,,well maybe it would came back....been awhile since I worked the splicing vises. We built a vice on a stand that will rotate(read pipe sleeved into larger pipe with standard Wilton vice bolted to top) then have an overhead pipe with a small vice on it.You get your eye started then clamp in lower vice, clamp the rest of cable in smaller overhead vice, then turn lower vice a turn or so to release some of the torque on the cable, then pin lower vice to stay in position, then make your hand splice.Turning the bottom vice and pinning releases some the cable torque, opens the strands up to make it easier to splice.Once done pull the pin and vice will spin to "tighten" the strands up in the splce area and you cut or tape your tails

 

[Baby Grand]

Are you wanting to see a handsplice video? We do splicing at work daily, we mainly do the flemish with a swage on sleeve.
For the handsplice we have vices specifically set up for this to make it faster and easier. I'll tell ya one thing I think is cool is the long splice,,joining 2 section of wire rope, the splice area is about 40' long and once spliced is complete you would be hard pressed to find it.

Yes! I have a 50' hank of 1/2" or 5/8" cable out in the shed that is somewhat useless right now, owing to the gnarl at both ends. An eye on one end and a back splice on the other would tansform it into an item of great utility to me.

 

[tcartwri]

My hands started to bleed just looking at those pictures.

 

[psj12]

When I was in the Coast Guard we spliced our own cables and made our own slings. Later I went to work for the Army and the same held true. Quite a few years ago they came through our work areas and took all the hand spliced cables and said only swaged commercially made slings were legal under OSHA.

I never saw a splice in rope or cable fail to hold.

 

[Chain Bender]

Thanks to all. I've been off the net for a while. Just wanted to stop back in and say thanks.

CB

 

[Chain Bender]

It just came to my mind that i needed to clarify my question.

I'm talking about 7 strand (6 spiral strands and one bigger center strand) SS 1/4" stuff. A friend of mine did one for me and he unravled about a foot of it, made a loop of some kind (eye) and then rewound the seperated tags back onto the oposite half of the unravle wire. Once he was done you could barely find the ends of the wires.

 

[saltbranch]

When I was in the Coast Guard we spliced our own cables and made our own slings. Later I went to work for the Army and the same held true. Quite a few years ago they came through our work areas and took all the hand spliced cables and said only swaged commercially made slings were legal under OSHA.

I never saw a splice in rope or cable fail to hold.

I dont think that hand splices have made illigal by OSHA, we are selling/making hand splice slings for some of the largest drilling companies and construction companies in the US. Companies with unreal requirements on safety. IE- serial#s, pull tests with graph charts etc .Hand splice eyes,endless grommets, running splices in sandlines are the main forms of hand splice we do.. Granted the swage sleeve is the majority of the slings we make, but there are a few that still want the hand splice eye.