Pm20 to provide guidance on good practice in the use of cable laid slings and grommets.
Cable laid slings and grommets guidance note.
The eye is the flemish type with a pressed on sleeve.
Health and safety executive author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
Appendix 5 guidance on the assessment condition and discard of cable laid slings grommets and ferfs rev.
Insert an i for slings made using imported rope.
The typical construction of a kimlock cable laid sling is 7x 6x36 iwrc.
Price new from used from paperback january 1 1987 please retry.
Flexibility is the outstanding characteristic of this type of sling.
For the same benefits at a substantial cost savings you should buy tri flex slings.
We have developed the following wire rope sling code system to help you in ordering these products.
To align with current codes.
This extra flexibility is obtained by the use of special multi wire galvanized wire ropes.
Strand laid grommets feature a wire rope body with a mechanical splice to form an endless body.
With the approval of hse imca has therefore reproduced an updated version of pm20 to provide guidance on good practice in the use of cable laid slings and grommets.
The guidance was originally prepared by a working group of experts in 1987 and was intended to be mainly of assistance to those concerned with the use of cable laid slings and.
Each sling is made to specifictaions needed for rigging applications.
Cable laid slings and grommets pm guidance note paperback january 1 1987 by great britain.
A grommet is a special type of sling which forms a continuous loop.
Grommets either have a wire rope body or a body made up of six strands which are laid helically around a strand core.
Ktl offshore designs and fabricates our kimlock cable laid slings to the pm20 1987 guidance note.
Leave blank for domestic rope.
Sling length ft one or two.
Grommet slings are wire rope sling with hand tucked and strand laid construction.
This results in a sling with a very high breaking force.
Capacities of basket hitches are based on minimum diameter of curvature at the point of load contact of 5 times the rope diameter.
Sling capacities are based upon a minimum d d of 5 1.
If other rope is desired enter 637 for a 6x37 construction or ez for cable laid rope.
The minimum sling circumference is 96 times the grommet body diameter.
The guidance was originally prepared by a working group of experts in 1987 and was intended to be mainly of assistance to those concerned with the use of cable laid slings and grommets in very heavy lifting operations.
The kimlock cable laid sling has a resin socketed termination with an efficiency of 100.
1 september 2016 to include additional construction methods.
Sling length is expressed as bearing to bearing.
The minimum circumference of the sling is 96 times the grommet s body diameter.
