Right Hand Lay Wire Rope

For right handed drum left hand rope.

Right hand lay wire rope.

Right hand lang lay rhll wire rope close up. In this instance the lay is to the left rather than to the right as in the right lang lay. In left lang lay rope the wires in the strands and the strands in the rope are also laid in the same direction. Right hand lang s lay.

To describe the direction in which the wires are stranded in relation to the direction of the strands in the completed rope e g. In a four rope hoist application the ropes should be installed left hand lay then right hand and left then right hand lay again not two left and then two right. This can be either left or right. Right hand regular lay.

The first is a fiber core made up of synthetic material or natural fibers like sisal. The rope in the left hand lay photo shows one left hand lay rope from left to right and top to bottom. When the strands rotate in a counterclockwise direction as the threads do in a left hand bolt the rope is left lay. If the strands appear to turn in an anti clockwise direction or like a left hand thread as the strands progress away from the viewer the rope has a left hand lay.

A cross lay conventional lay the strands of a so called conventional wire rope have equal sized wires in all layers. If the strands rotate around the rope in a clockwise direction as the threads do in a right hand bolt the rope is said to be right lay. This core can be one of three types. Stranded ropes are an assembly of several strands laid helically in one or more layers around a core.

For left handed drum right hand rope. Clips are usually spaced about six wire rope diameters apart to give adequate holding power. Left hand regular lay. Steel wire ropes are conventionally produced right hand lay unless special circumstances require left hand lay.

The idea of lay is used to describe three different characteristics of wire rope. Figure 13 4 lays of wire rope. So to further reduce the affects of rope torque when loaded it is advisable to have a left and right hand laid rope in the winding system. The first is the direction in which the wire rope s strands are wrapped around the wire rope s core.

Right hand lay strands are laid into a right hand lay rope. They should be tightened before the rope is placed under tension. The picture of steel wire rope on this page shows a rope with right hand lay. In reverse lay rope the wires in one strand are laid to the right the.

Ordinary lay or lang s lay.