Warpspeed Dyneema by Samson

[Brian Duff]

for low cost (but very safe) workboat style stuff we have been using vectran stay , served over, spliced around stainless thimbles, into galv turnbuckles. Just make sure you buy turnbuckles with a load rating stamped on them, and that it is suitable for your boat. of course making your own deadeyes of wood would be even cheaper i;d think (if the wood was free)

I wouldn't do dyneema with turnbuckles, they don't have enough travel, youd be resplicing all the time...
vectran works fine though

[benz]

Hi Jeff,

Not sure whipping (seizing, really) HM line would be a good idea; it doesn't take kindly to the squeezing loads of knots, and a seizing is just basically squeezing the two parts together. But a 12-strand splice is easy to pull out and shorten, though I'm more keen on Brian D's Vectran in order to avoid having to do that a lot. My biggest worry with Galvanised is the difficulty in finding a domestic wire that's cheap enough; it seems most of the Galvi stuff is coming from overseas, and what's made here, (when you can find it), is terribly expensive. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough yet.
I'd love to make my own deadeyes, but by the time you buy the right hardwood (would cocobolo suit, by the way?) and put all the time into it, you may as well have bought Precourt. Sigh....

[jeffbonny]

Originally Posted by benz

Hi Jeff,

Not sure whipping (seizing, really) HM line would be a good idea; it doesn't take kindly to the squeezing loads of knots, and a seizing is just basically squeezing the two parts together. But a 12-strand splice is easy to pull out and shorten, though I'm more keen on Brian D's Vectran in order to avoid having to do that a lot. My biggest worry with Galvanised is the difficulty in finding a domestic wire that's cheap enough; it seems most of the Galvi stuff is coming from overseas, and what's made here, (when you can find it), is terribly expensive. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough yet.
I'd love to make my own deadeyes, but by the time you buy the right hardwood (would cocobolo suit, by the way?) and put all the time into it, you may as well have bought Precourt. Sigh....

Thanks...I'm getting some food for thought here. I agree with you about offshore manufactured rigging components of any sort and when presented with them on a job will do a shoulder check and "retire" that crap before it can kill someone. What size and construction of galvanized wire would you be comfortable using? How much would you need for your rig? I'm going to have to source some for my boat. I'm going to start doing that next week when I have to talk to suppliers for a little movie job I gotta do. You in the PacNW?

[benz]

Hi Jeff,

If galvanised, I'm looking for 3/8 diameter; 7x19 or 7x7 (6x either will work also), and close to 250 feet of it. If I could get the same in SS cheap enough, that would be swell also, since with that wire there'd be no need of Sta-locks: just of learning to splice. Which, of course, might be the toughest nut to crack.
Ben