Hi, re-awakening this thread as I set about replacing the lifting wire on Minnie which has one or two snapped wires.
It is obvious that there have been different specs for the lifting cable/plate connection, some with a 'bicycle brake cable' style slot in the plate and some requiring the threading of the cable though a hole in the edge to a large hole where the crimped end sits.
Minnie, no 85, has the latter. From above Aurora, number 86, has the slot so I guess the change was made in this era (to mid 2000s) ?
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Two requests for advice please:
Has anyone had issues with corrosion of the plate where the wire fits to the plate? Minnie's cable is 'frozen' in the hole where it goes through the plate. Trying levers, grips and penetrating oil to try to free it and the edge of the large hole for the crimp has crumbled slightly in one or two places as though corroded. Could both issues be galvanic corosion?
Fitting Dyneema instead of wire. I know that Zimp and Chris and I believe others have gone for Dyneema. Malcbuchanan has gone the other way. My concern is the chafe over the sheave and where the rope enters the hole in the plate. A brief look has shown that there are many types of Dyneema (SK78, SK79, DM29 etc) and different ways of using it (all Dyneema, polyeste core, polyester sheath etc etc). What have people used for the hoist?
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