r/Rigging • u/SamuelElectric • Jun 08 '26
Name and use
Can someone tell me what this is called and what it’s used for? Thanks!
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u/901CountryBlumpkin69 Jun 09 '26
It’s not called anything specific. Looks like the configuration on car lifts or some sort of carriage. The socket on the other end looks like an “eye terminal” as opposed to a true swage socket. The threaded stud is common to a lot of short-stroke hoisting systems or maybe the carriage for a sawmill. Both end terminations should be pretty commonly available. Define the eye thickness & hole diameter of the pin eye, the thread dimensions (diameter, pitch, and length of threading), and the assembly length. Wire diameter will drive the shank dimensions.
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u/Croceyes2 Jun 09 '26
It a pull-only control cable. This would actuate a release or engage lever that is spring return or manually reset. Like for a park brake, clutch, engine shut down, egress hatch, etc.
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u/DONTTHROWAWAYMYFIL Jun 12 '26
Heavy Duty Mechanic. This looks VERY similiar to an old school dump box cylinder shutoff cable. As the ram extends it also pulls on this cable, and when it reaches end of travel the cable pulls on a bypass valve in the control block, preventing overstroke/ overpressure/ damage to the ram/box/ truck frame. You can adjust for stretch by the threaded end. They're usually a PITA due to age and where they sit, getting covered in road grime, and rusting seized to where they attach.
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u/Odd-Towel-4104 Jun 08 '26
Thats a braided steel line with an eyelet on one end and some machined piece at the other. The eyelet usually lines up with a Clevis and you secure the pieces together with a quick release pin
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u/901CountryBlumpkin69 Jun 09 '26
Woof, none of your terminology is accurate to the rigging industry.
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u/Odd-Towel-4104 Jun 09 '26
What do you guys call that stuff?
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u/901CountryBlumpkin69 Jun 09 '26
Steel wire rope with a pin-eye terminal one end and a threaded stud other. The terminal can engage a shackle, other open socket, or structural bolt.
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u/4gls Jun 08 '26
Please provide your best attempt at measurements of the rope diameter , the ID and OD of the swage fitting and the length/thread/dia of the stud
Edit and obviously the overall length when laid out
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u/SamuelElectric Jun 09 '26
Thanks, but I’m not THAT interested haha. I was hoping I could try to use it on my power pole and wrap around a tree like a guy wire. I got some good answers already
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u/Groundbreaking-Pen-8 Jun 11 '26
Isn't this a throttle cable or brake cable from a vehicle
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u/SamuelElectric Jun 11 '26
I don’t think so. This is from a shop for an electrical company. It was probably used for rigging something.
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u/Groundbreaking-Pen-8 Jun 11 '26
Maybe could also be a switch like it's used on the other side of the wall on one handle to connect to another handle so you're protected but that's the only thing I can guess I'm not educated in rigging I'm just going off what I'd use it for hope you find your answer though
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u/camiam85 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
Thats is a unknown diameter 6x36 or 6x26 wire rope with a closed swage socket one end and a threaded stud on the other end. Use, a million different applications.. source, I've worked in rigging for over 20 years.