Following this thread with interest and I have spoken
to the UK importers.

Some experimental work has been done in the UK. One
identified problem is that the standard winch guillotines
do not cut the plasma cable as efficiently as they
do steel cable and that a strand or strands remain.


Can any user comment on this please.

Dave Martin


At 09:24 12 August 2003, Chris Nicholas wrote:
Do any changes have to be made to the pay-on rollers,
to avoid the
lighter rope slipping and potentially overheating locally?
On our
winch, the rollers are heavily scored where generations
of steel cable
have slipped a bit and cut into the surface.

These rollers are now about 40 years old, maybe older.
While they could
perhaps be renewed with a good surface, they do have
considerable
inertia, and a free-running cable suddenly coming into
contact with one
of them is bound to take some time to whirl it up to
speed. Steel
stands up to that - would Spectra/Dyneema?

Chris N.