What "rouring feight" is?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Reeving is the routing of a rope or cable through sheaves and drums. A "single reeve" would come straight off the drum. A "double reeve" would pass through a pulley and return.

Looks like "lowering weight" is the best interpretation. Probably the author had no idea what to call it so just chose" lowering weight" and translated it into Chinglish.

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:28:31 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Spehro Pefhany quickly quoth:

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Note that the issue in item 1 will only occur when the winch is mounted such that retrieving the non-lowering hook will require going to get a ladder. You can test it all day and it will work perfectly until you mount it out of reach.

Pete C.

Well, the last few HF hand power tools I've bought with universal motors in them came with a spare pair of motor brushes. I don't recall ever getting stuff like that with US made tools.

Plus, any hobbyist worth squatting on this newsgroup darn well ought to be able to cobble a fix for most of what might break on that imported stuff, and maybe get a smug feeling of accomplishing something he/she knows 9 out of 10 other guys on the bus couldn't do themselves in a month of Sundays.

Not broody rikery.

Agreed, it's likely just some plick of a bean counter in China who won't spring for hiring an expatriot american techie to do the translation.

Something I've heard a couple of times recently is that, because of the huge population differences between China and the USA, there are now more people in China who speak english than there are in America. Probably not the quality of english we're used to, but....

Political correctness prevents me from remarking about the increasing percentage of non-english speaking residents in the USA, but that may also have something to do with what I heard.

For some insane reason, whenever I hear someone say that the time is around 2:30, I can't keep myself from thinking..........

Ouch, that sounds like another chinese toothache.

Jeff

Ahh, it is to keep the cable taut, so it doesn't "bird's nest" on the drum. Crossing over and random lapping of the turns puts a lot of stress on the individual strands of the cable. At light load it isn't a big deal, but near rated load it can lead to early failure of the cable.

They also put odd little weights on high tension power lines, near the insulators. These damp out wind-induced vibrations of the wires, preventing fatigue right at the insulator clamps.

Jon

We have a $100,000 JEOL electron microprobe (scanning electron microscope with X-ray analyzer) at Washington University. It was ordered with the English instrument panel labels. They got almost EVERY "L" and "R" switched on the thing! Stuff like "Poraloid Camera" (Yeah, I know the Japanese seem to have got "camera" down by now. That may be the ONLY correct one on the thing.) Lots of Holizontal's on it, too.

Jon

So it doesn't sproing around and cross over as you're lowering the hook to attach it? That would explain why it's not a "laising feight".

Hmm... my old (~1948) engineering handbook has an entry referring to "Stockbridge dampers".

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

1. It helps pull the cable off the drum when lowering as just the hook and cable is not enough weight and the drum will simply rotate inside of a big coil of cable.
2. It also hits a "framework" at the hoist that the cable runs through so when you are raising a load, it will shut off the winch when the weight hits the framework. It prevents stalling out the winch (or worse) when you have raised it as far as it will go. HTH Ken.