Thank you so much Brion for going to all that effort to find out about these fittings for me! I was kind of thinking of taking apart the fittings anyway since I am pulling the mast to replace a couple rotted chainplate knees, so was going to go over the rig while it was down, I will order a pile of new cones from Esmet in preperation for taking apart and and reassembling the fittings. That wont happen for a couple of months, but I will report back, with photos, what I find inside as far as corrosion (or lack of it).
90 to 95% rating seems to make sense from what little I know in my uninformed research: the documention I have for the spare cones claims 100% of rating for IPS, which as I have been able to figure out would probably come to 95ish for SS wire (unless I am completely misunderstanding things which is entirely possible).
Again, thank you so much, as someone who does a lot of long distance ocean sailing, I do not like mysteries on my boat, and certainly not in the rig! Your educated input is of immense value.
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