Reduce Overheating In Your Docklines and Rodes
January 16, 2019 Reduce Overheating In Your Docklines and Rodes But what percentage of a rope's breaking durability is considered an "extreme" weight? And exactly how does the regularity of the load cycling impact heat build-up? And most importantly, how can we prevent this specific intra-fiber heat buildup from happening? In the end, our testers discovered that although intra-fiber friction is actually a genuine risk, the more problematic threat is our apparent adversary-- exterior friction caused by rubbing on chocks, anchor rollers, docks, fairleads etc. And the risk of interior friction on smaller sized diameter ropes is much less likely than it is on bigger diameter ropes. Ropes greater than one-inch in diameter are subject to interior heating if packed past their safe working limit or loaded at high frequency. Ground anchor and sea anchor rodes are cycled at low frequency; though the core will see some increase in temperature level, it will defini
