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2. Husky (tool brand) - Wikipedia

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   Husky is a line of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and tool storage products. Though founded in 1924, it is now best known as the house brand of The Home Depot, where it is exclusively sold. Its hand tools are manufactured for Home Depot by Western Forge, Apex Tool Group, and Iron Bridge Tools. [1] Its slogan is "The toughest name in tools."

3. Wire rope - Wikipedia

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   Right-hand ordinary lay (RHOL) wire rope terminated in a loop with a thimble and ferrule. The end of a wire rope tends to fray readily, and cannot be easily connected to plant and equipment. There are different ways of securing the ends of wire ropes to prevent fraying. The common and useful type of end fitting for a wire rope is to turn the ...

4. Fid - Wikipedia

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   The length of these fids is typically 21 or 22 times the diameter of rope to be spliced. A one-half-inch (12.7 mm) diameter rope would have any accompanying fid 10.5–11 in (266.7–279.4 mm) in length with hash-marks denoting the long and short fid measurements. A short fid is 1 ⁄ 3 a fid length and a long fid is 2 ⁄ 3 the overall fid length.

5. Marlinspike - Wikipedia

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   A marlinspike (/ ˈ m ɑːr l ɪ n s p aɪ k /, sometimes spelled marlin spike, marlinespike, or [archaic] marlingspike) is a tool used in marine ropework. Shaped in the form of a narrow metal cone tapered to a rounded or flattened point, it is used in tasks such as unlaying rope for splicing , untying knots , drawing tight using a marlinspike ...

6. Wire rope spooling technology - Wikipedia

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   In offshore applications, huge lengths of rope are often housed on drums. The anchor winches on Saipem's Semac 1 pipe laying barge, for example, each hold 2,800 metres of 76mm (3 inch) diameter wire rope in 14 layers. Saipem's Castorone, the world's largest pipe laying vessel uses a wire rope that is 3,850m long and 152mm in diameter. It weighs ...

7. Eye splice - Wikipedia

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   Eye splices from Carl Smith's 1899 Båtseglareordbok [1] Eye splice from Alpheus Hyatt Verrill's 1917 Knots, Splices and Rope Work [2]. The eye splice is a method of creating a permanent loop (an "eye") in the end of a rope by means of rope splicing.