Talk:Wire rope

message: Just added a fair bit of stuff to this page.  I'm a mechanical engineer interested in this topic.  Happy to discuss changes with others here...?  Bernard S. Jansen 08:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Should i add a citation to this link:  http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/575600/suspension-bridge  .  After the word suspension bridge?
Doorknob747 23:08, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation

message: The focus of this article is steel wire rope (pointed out above).  Feel free to add other materials, though it is likely that steel wire rope is a topic worth it's own page anyway.  Until we get a lot more info on other types, probably best to bundle it all together.  Bernard S. Jansen 01:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Materials 

message: I thought (in the US) a common alternate word for wire rope is 'cable'.  Wire rope is a better term since it distinguishes this use from electrical cable, but shouldn't this alternate term be mentioned?  --ChetvornoTALK 17:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In Britain, I've always heard it referred to as steel cable. Ghiraddje 16:07, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Isn't this stuff also called cable?

message: My addition of a dismbig was deleted here].  Wire Rope Corporation of America claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of wire rope.  It was hardly an advert.  I'm not crazy about it being at the top of the page.  But that unfortunately is how Wikipedia is structured.Americasroof (talk) 21:24, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Being the largest wire rope producer in the world does not equate to a hatnote in this article. At best it would belong in the see also section, however I don't think it deserves that. Article that would get a link to Wire Rope Corporation of America would be ones that directly reference the company. Wizard191 (talk) 13:29, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Wire Rope Corporation of America

message: A lot of the content of this article was copied from the book "Wire Ropes: Tension, Endurance, Reliability" By Klaus Feyrer. I thought it was just a sentence or two, but there is a lot of it here.Ariel. (talk) 18:26, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Examples?  Most of the article's content has been here since early January 2007, as far as I can tell, and the book was published in 2007.  Nyttend (talk) 14:37, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

message: Description unclear - Rod57 (talk) 14:06, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  No image of wire rope clamp 

message: In the Simple English version of this article (found here: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_rope), the following image is used: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6x19_wire_rope_construction-en.svg. At the time of this discussion, that image isn't in the present article.
In the previous image, the smallest unit composing the wire rope is called a wire, followed by a strand, followed by the wire rope. But, in the article titled Wire (found here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire), the names of wire and strand are flipped (i.e. the smallest unit is called a strand, followed by a wire). So the terminology is inconsistent between those articles.
The terminology should be corrected in either article (whatever is considered as correct).
--Alej27 (talk) 06:43, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent terminology (strand and wire) between articles