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Posted by Chriscase on Friday, May 29, 2009 at 23:27:20 :
In Reply to: Wire Rope 7/16 clamp posted by Milo /in/ Pa on Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 18:30:42 :
The Flemish Eye is 'tied' by unwrapping a foot or so of the cable, down the middle. Then 'tie' the two sections in a half hitch, and wrap each section back around it's mate, going towards the standing end. Each section will go up and around the thimble, so you have full strength of the cable. And full friction , each strand being twisted around the others. It looks just like the usual loop-back eye, but only requires one clamp. The tag ends of the strands are nor braided back in, that makes the cable weaker. Flemish Eyes are ummm 95% as strong as the cable, braided splices only 85%, clamped splices are about 80%?
Better directions are on the net someplace, I just wanted to post enough to tell you how easy, and it's advantages.
I don't know about machining 'safe line clamps'. Isn't the inside cast with grooves for the strands?
If I wanted to neaten up my own Flemish Eye that has a u-clamp on it, I think I would machine a steel ferrule, and make a crimper that I could whack with a sledge hammer. That's the way new cables come- flemish eye , crimped ferrule, only they use a press to crimp them.
I lernt it all here on the interweb, at PW,com.
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