Breaking strain - ropes, cables etc

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  1. Willallison
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    Any good leads on breaking strains of various rope / cable types and thicknesses - Dacron, Spectra, stainless etc (preferably metric....)
     
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    Ok - fair comment - I had a bit of a search but nothing I came up with gave me the results I needed.
    Then I found:

    www.yalecordage.com

    Excellent (still not metric, mind you...)
     
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    Excellent thanks - I actually found this page before, but didn't look far enough for the page table at the bottom of the page
     
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