Cabling

[glens]

That transformation came out pretty clean. Usually text doesn't fare well in JPEG.

Doesn't Word have an "export as PDF" feature? Just for kicks, Mike, would you send me a copy of the document to see if my half-dozen or so tools that have that capability can do any good with it?

Glen

 

[Mike_Maas]

Re: Cable ends test

The failure of the conventional system is interesting. It shows the importance of drilling a hole that is the same size as the bolt shaft and pulling the eye tight to the limb, so there's no shaft movement. Do yo uall think it would still have failed had thse steps been followed (assuming they weren't)?
The test also shows wear between the thimble and the preformed grip. If the thimble is installed such that it doesn't move, I wonder if this wear could be eliminated.
I guess what I'm getting at is wether or not the test on the conventional system was skewed to have early failure.
Most revealing about the Rigguy test is that the weak spot is the point where the cable exits the limb, as was discussed before. I even recall a discussion about this very problem a few years ago on the ISA board.
How long a time is 14,400 cycles out int he real world? Is it a reasonable life expectancey for a cabling system?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Re: Cable ends test

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How long a time is 14,400 cycles out int he real world? Is it a reasonable life expectancey for a cabling system?

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Exactly. How do we compare?

 

[glens]

Well, I had to fetch the latest version of OpenOffice.org to get the overlays to work, then I resized the font in the body down a couple of points to get the overlays to overlay in the proper places in the (later) images. I did not mess with the content in any other way, so there are a few places where the author had used a hard "return", resulting in either a few extra spaces in a line of text, or a new sentence starting on a new line but not spaced like a new paragraph. Also, so far as I can tell, the "bullet" points were some kind of "wingding" font or other, which I don't have or otherwise need.

PDF is truly, as the initials imply, a Portable Document Format. Unlike Word, which will render differently on different systems, PDF will look exactly the same everywhere.

If Word will not produce a PDF file as output, I recommend setting the printer as a PostScript device and saving the output to a file (will have the extension .ps). Then, using the excellent free postscript tools available to Windows users in ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs815/gs815w32.exe (see their homepage at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) you can convert it almost instantly to PDF. You can also use the software to print PDF or PostScript files if you have no "native" process available. You all should like these guys; see their intro page where they mention (not) killing trees.

Well, anyway, here it is, attached. It's a bit larger in file size (504 KB) than Mike's image, but it's about a fifth of the size of the .doc file I was graciously sent.

Glen