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Wire and rod rigging
We have the tooling in house to enable us to roll swage fittings onto
wire diameters from 2mm to 16mm. We also stock all the wire and fittings
to enable us to produce any of these sizes from stock. We have also ordered
and are now waiting for our new swaging machine to arrive, which will
increase our swaging capacity to 28mm .
We stock 3 different types of wire, depending on its use.
The most commonly used wire for standing rigging on boats, or balustrade
systems is 1x19 stainless steel wire, which is, as its name implies, made
up of 19 individual strands made up of 1 wire. Consequently it is very
stiff.
If the wire is to run around corners, or sheaves, we would normally use
7x19 stainless steel wire, which is made up of 7 wires, each made of 19
smaller wires. As you could imagine, each wire is tiny and consequently
the whole wire is fairly flexible. This is used most commonly for wire
or wire/rope halyards, keel wires and steering systems.
Dyform wire is the 3rd type of wire we stock and is used when stretch,
or weight of rigging is very important. Dyformis a 1x 7 construction,
but each wire is pre-formed to fitinto its neighbour strand more closely,
thus there are less air gaps in the cross section. It consequently has
more material and is significantly stronger than a similar diameter wire.
This means we can sometimes reduce the wire diameter for the same strength,
which gives the obvious weight and windage savings, or we can retain wire
diameter and achieve significantly lower stretch and higher work loadings
than the 1x19 wire.
For the ultimate standing rigging products we also use and sell Navtec
rod rigging systems, which we assemble in house. We have the only cold
heading press west of the solent, which makes modifications feasible.
The Navtec Terminals, combined with the very best Nitronic Rod, makes
for the ultimate, low stretch, low windage standing rigging systems.
One major advantage of Rod rigging is that we can often simply re head
the rods at the end of their life span and re use most of the end fittings,
which saves a lot of money when re rigging is required.
Whatever your wire requirements, we fit only the best hard ware onto
the ends, whether it be roll swage terminals or the Norseman or Stalok
swageless terminals. We will always check that the correct make of “T-terminal”
is used, to match the backing plates in your mast, as these must never
be mis-matched.
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