Matias
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Teardrop Steel Thimble - 3/4"
DetailsThimbles preserve more of the breaking strength of a rope when used with a knot or an eye splice by maintaining a large bend radius and protecting the rope.
www.wesspur.com
Wesspur sells these steel thimbles, which appear to be galvanized, and offer them as an option for spliced eyes on Amsteel for winch lines. My local cable shop has the same ones, for the same price, and I went and checked them out, but I have some questions.
1. They have some burrs which would obviously need to be sanded down to use, so...
2. If one must sand off the zinc immediately, won't they start to rust just as quickly?
3. How big of a problem does this rust present, if any?
I want to use a 1" thimble and a 3/4" thimble with a hank of 5/8" Amsteel to make a choker for pulling and dragging, so I stop wrecking the spliced ends of my long ropes. I got the Amsteel 80% off, so don't worry about how expensive it would normally be to build this. My experience with the stuff leads me to believe that this will endure anything I'll use it for, and for many years, so I want to put thimbles on it that will be equally long lived. I am betting that these galvanised thimbles will be worth every bit of $8, but would I be better off seeking stainless? Will it matter enough over what I suspect will be roughly 5 years?
